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dispensary en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /dɪsˈpɛnsəɹi/ (UK)

Meanings

1. A place or room where something is dispensed ▸ An institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice.
2. A place or room where something is dispensed ▸ A retail establishment that sells marijuana and related supplies to customers with a prescription to use it for medical purposes.
3. (dated) A place or room where something is dispensed ▸ Synonym of pharmacy, particularly one included in a hospital that does not act as a point of sale.
   • 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, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 120:

Forms

Synonyms

pharmacy · particularly one included in a hospital that does not act as a point of sale · dispo

Translations (39)

ca dispensari (place for dispensing) · sv dispensär (institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice) · es dispensario (institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice) · es dispensario (office for dispensing drugs) · tr dispanser (institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice) · es expendeduría (institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice) · nl gezondheidscentrum (institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice) · fi lääkekaappi (office for dispensing drugs) · it dispensario (place for dispensing) · hy դիսպանսեր (institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice) · fi terveydenhoitajan vastaanotto (institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice) · de Apotheke (office for dispensing drugs) · cs výdejna (place for dispensing) · fr dispensaire (institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice) · ro dispensar (institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice) · de Arzneimittelausgabe (place for dispensing) · fi -varasto (place for dispensing) · de Medikamentenausgabe (place for dispensing) · bg диспансе́р (institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice) · fr dispensaire (place for dispensing) · cy fferyllfa (office for dispensing drugs) · fi jakelupiste (place for dispensing) · fi apteekki (office for dispensing drugs) · nl kliniek (institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice) · nl apotheek (office for dispensing drugs) · be дыспансэ́р (institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice) · cs výdejna (office for dispensing drugs) · ru диспансе́р (institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice) · de Dispensaire (institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice) · hi औषधालय (office for dispensing drugs) · es dispensario (place for dispensing) · de Krankenhausapotheke (place for dispensing) · ja 保健室 (institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice) · mi whakaipurangi rongoā (office for dispensing drugs) · it dispensario (institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice) · de Ausgabestelle für Medikamente (place for dispensing) · uk диспансе́р (institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice) · cmn 藥房 /药房 (office for dispensing drugs) · kk диспансер (institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice)