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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

A&E en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /eɪ(ə)n(d)ˈiː/

Meanings

  1. (Commonwealth, UK) The accident and emergency (casualty) department of a hospital.
    • It is too soon to measure the impact of Hubbard’s work on hospital admission figures. But a practice frailty nurse helped reduce A&E attendances and admissions by 54% and GP home visit requests by 81%. 2016 June 30, Kate Murray, “How occupational therapists help keep older people out of hospital”, in The Guardian:
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Arts and Entertainment.

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