clearing station

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Noun

clearing station (plural clearing stations)

  1. (military) A temporary field hospital to treat and classify the sick and wounded.
    • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 181:
      ‘The orders are that we stay here. You clear the wounded from here to the clearing station.’

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