(N. Amer.)a non-resident doctor or other worker in a hospital (北美)非住院医师(或医务工作者)
(in a strictly enclosed order of nuns) a sister who does not live exclusively within the enclosure and goes on outside errands (严格封闭的女修道会中的经常外出办事的)非住院修女;外勤修女
verb
[with obj.](SE Asian)banish (someone considered politically undesirable) from a region or district (东南亚)放逐(政治反对派) he was externed for inciting communal tension in Mumbai. 他因在孟买煽动社区紧张关系而被驱逐。
派生 externment noun 语源
mid 16th cent. (as an adjective in the sense 'external'): from French externe or Latin externus, from exter 'outer'. The word was used by Shakespeare to mean 'outward appearance'; current senses date from the early 17th cent