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English
Pronunciation
Noun
dispensary (plural dispensaries)
- A place or room where something is dispensed, particularly:
- (dated) Synonym of pharmacy, particularly one included in a hospital that does not act as a point of sale.
1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 120: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.
- An institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice.
- A retail establishment that sells marijuana and related supplies to customers with a prescription to use it for medical purposes.
Translations
office for dispensing drugs
institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice