dispensary
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪsˈpɛnsəɹi/
Noun
dispensary (plural dispensaries)
- A place or room where something is dispensed.
- A room or vehicle specifically designed for the dispensing of drugs; a pharmacy.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 120:
- He watched for a while, pacing the small, slippery cobbles, then made for the deep shade of a stone porch on the other side of the square, where a sheet with a red cross on it had been draped around a pillar. A two-wheeled field dispensary with no driver stood outside the building.
- 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 120:
- An institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice.
- A retail establishment that sells marijuana and related supplies to customers with a prescription to use it for medical purposes.
- A room or vehicle specifically designed for the dispensing of drugs; a pharmacy.
Translations
room for dispensing drugs
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institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice
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