Dispensary
[dɪ'spens(ə)rɪ] or [dɪ'spɛnsəri]
Definition
(noun.) clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed.
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Definition
(n.) A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed; esp., a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and medicines gratuitously or at a nominal price.
(n.) A dispensatory.
Typist: Robinson
Definition
n. a place where medicines are dispensed esp. to the poor gratis.
Typist: Psyche
Examples
- It's a regulation of natur--a dispensary, as your poor mother-in-law used to say. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- His residence and principal consulting-room is at Kennington Road, but he has a branch surgery and dispensary at Lower Brixton Road, two miles away. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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