English
dispensary
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /dɪsˈpɛnsəɹi/
Noun

dispensary (plural dispensaries)

  1. A place or room where something is dispensed.
    1. A room or vehicle specifically designed for the dispensing of drugs; a pharmacy.
      • 1989, H. T. Willetts (translator), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (author), August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-51999-4, 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.
    2. An institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice.
    3. A retail establishment that sells marijuana and related supplies to customers with a prescription to use it for medical purposes.
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