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Definition of hospital
1 : a charitable institution for the needy, aged, infirm, or young
2 : an institution where the sick or injured are given medical or surgical care —usually used in British English without an article after a preposition
3 : a repair shop for specified small objects a clock hospital
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Recent Examples of hospital from the Web
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Both have greatly underinvested in education and health, for example, forcing even the poorest to resort to private schools and hospitals.
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Dr. Needleman first encountered the toxin in the infant ward at a children’s hospital in Philadelphia.
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That is the second-highest count the hospital system has seen since the tally began in 2011.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell notes that rural hospitals are already in trouble.
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The hospital will have 66 beds and is expected to employ up to 200 people, according to the application.
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Paramedics took him to a hospital with serious wounds, police said.
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She was taken to the hospital with a severe skull fracture, drained of most of her body fluids.
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He was treated and released from Ingalls hospital on Friday.
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Origin and Etymology of hospital
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin hospitale hospice, guest house, from neuter of Latin hospitalis of a guest, from hospit-, hospes
HOSPITAL Defined for English Language Learners
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: a place where sick or injured people are given care or treatment and where children are often born
HOSPITAL Defined for Kids
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: a place where the sick and injured are given medical care
Medical Dictionary
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playMedical Definition of hospital
1: a charitable institution for the needy, aged, infirm, or young
2a: an institution where the sick or injured are given medical or surgical care—when used in British English following a preposition, the article is usually omitted came and saw me in hospital—Robert Gravesb: a place for the care and treatment of sick and injured animals
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