dispensary

UK/dɪsˈpɛnsəɹi/

nounC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,145 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: dispensaries

A dispensary is a place where medicines are made up and handed out. The hospital dispensary.

It was once the only free medical care many people had, since charitable dispensaries treated the poor. A dispensary now means the part of a hospital or clinic that supplies drugs.

Definitions of dispensary

1noundispensaryA place where medicines are made up and handed out.C1
“The dispensary opened at eight and had a queue by ten past.”

dispensary is a place.

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dispensary in the wild

A public dispensary, charitable dispensary or free dispensary gives advice and medicines free-of-charge, or for a small charge.
Public dispensary
The term also has Victorian antiquity, in 1862 the term dispensary was used in the folk song the Blaydon Races.
Dispensary
The folk song differentiated the term dispensary from a Doctors surgery and an Infirmary.
Dispensary
Baltimore General Dispensary is a historic public dispensary building located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Baltimore General Dispensary
The interior originally featured a large dispensary center on the first floor, separated for black and white patients.
Baltimore General Dispensary

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