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DISPENSARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dispensary mean? 

DISPENSARY (noun)
  The noun DISPENSARY has 1 sense:

1. clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensedplay

  Familiarity information: DISPENSARY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DISPENSARY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("dispensary" is a kind of...):

clinic (a healthcare facility for outpatient care)

Derivation:

dispense (give or apply (medications))


 Context examples 


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.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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