Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man employed for cleaning, maintenance, and other general work in a house or hotel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun British an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience in a hospital or other medical institution.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK A
medical graduate gaining practical experience in ahospital
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term)
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Examples
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The houseman is very kind, but he must have his rent.
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I wondered if a houseman was the same as a doorman.
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I had never heard of a position called the houseman until I applied for it.
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I had never heard of a position called the houseman until I applied for it.
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So he called his houseman to bring the car around and Federico, Patrick and I all went home to Cuernavaca in style.
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So he called his houseman to bring the car around and Federico, Patrick and I all went home to Cuernavaca in style.
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The houseman is a regular in the local betting shop, and gambles heavily on horses.
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The houseman is a regular in the local betting shop, and gambles heavily on horses.
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He called the houseman to bring out drinks, and merely sighed when I said I'd as soon share his sugar free tonic.
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There are also legal complications: the Medical Act 1971 specifies that a houseman is a government officer, so who will pay his salary?
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