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nonhospital en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + hospital. Piecewise doublet of nonhotel.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Not in or relating to a hospital.
   • The Abbott product line would help G.E. add nursing homes and other nonhospital medical settings to its base, analysts said. 2007 January 18, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “G.E. May Buy Abbott’s Diagnostic Unit”, in New York Times:
   • They recommended that prospective studies should be based on the mothers' intention to have a nonhospital delivery. 1982, Research issues in the assessment of birth settings:

nonhospital en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + hospital. Piecewise doublet of nonhotel.

Meanings

1. An institution that is not a hospital.
   • Nonhospitals could replace the least utilized hospitals, and the area's strengthened surviving hospital could serve as the provider of secondary care for the communities that develop nonhospitals. 1988, LaVonne Straub, Norman Walzer, Financing Rural Health Care, page 97:

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