ambulette

noun am·bu·lette \ ˌam-byə-ˈlet \

Definition of ambulette

: a van or similar vehicle equipped for transporting people with limited mobility (such as wheelchair-bound patients) in nonemergency situations

At the hospital, I … arranged for an ambulette to bring us to the apartment.
—Roz Chast

Recent Examples of ambulette from the Web

One defendant was accused of parking his Mercedes with a phony Law Department placard in a space reserved for an ambulette that transported people with disabilities to a health care facility, investigators said.

— james c. mckinley jr., New York Times, "Dozens Charged With Using Fake Parking Placards to Avoid Tickets," 3 Oct. 2017

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