residency
Definitions
The fact or status of living in a particular place, especially with official rights.
居住；（尤指有官方权利的）居留身份。
A period of advanced, supervised hospital training that a doctor completes after medical school.
住院医师培训期（医生在医学院毕业后接受的高级带教培训阶段）。
Root Breakdown
Root-derivedre- (back, settle down) + sid (sit) + -ency = 'the state of sitting/settling in a place.' From living somewhere it extended to the period a trainee doctor 'settles into' a hospital.
Root sit still carries 98 more wordsWhy It Means This
The medical sense surprises learners: it has nothing to do with where a doctor lives. In 19th-century US hospitals, junior doctors literally resided on the premises, on call day and night. The living-in arrangement faded, but the name for that training stage stuck.
Common Collocations
- 1.permanent residency永久居留权
- 2.medical residency住院医师培训
- 3.artist residency驻场艺术家项目
- 4.residency program住院医师培训项目
Example Sentences
- 1.
She applied for permanent residency after living in Canada for five years.
- 2.
He matched into a surgery residency at a teaching hospital.
- 3.
The artist's residency lasted three months and ended with an exhibition.