The act of working as an intern, typically a student or trainee who works in an organization, often without pay, in order to gain work experience or satisfy requirements for a qualification.

During the summer, she spent her time interning at a local law firm to gain practical experience.

The act of detaining or confining people, especially enemy citizens in wartime.

The interning of enemy aliens during World War II has since been widely criticised.

interninggerundium / partizip präsens

Working in the capacity of an intern; serving as a trainee.

The hospital relies on interning doctors to cover the night shift.

internverb

To confine someone as a prisoner, especially for political or military reasons.

During the war, the government decided to intern enemy aliens in camps.

To work as an intern, typically as part of a course of study or training.

She decided to intern at a law firm over the summer to gain practical experience.

To employ or accept (someone) as an intern for training or work experience.

The tech firm interns dozens of computer-science students every summer.

(Computing) To place (a string or other object) in a shared pool so that identical instances refer to the same memory location.

The Java Virtual Machine automatically interns string literals to save memory.