Meaning

3 senses
  1. A place or room where something is dispensed

    An institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice.

    Dispensaire, Arzneimittelausgabe, Medikamentenausgabe

    диспансе́рdispansɛ́r

    диспансе́рdyspansér

    clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed

  2. A retail establishment that sells marijuana and related supplies to customers with a prescription to use it for medical purposes.

  3. (dated)Synonym of pharmacy, particularly one included in a hospital that does not act as a point of sale.

    Apotheke

Examples

5 sentences
  1. When do you want to hit up the dispensary?

  2. You need a medical card to shop at the dispensary.

  3. I thought it was a tea shop, but it was a marijuana dispensary.

  4. Marijuana will be heavily regulated under the new law, and dispensaries will be barred from locations near schools and public parks.

  5. I think that Colorado has a lot of dispensaries.

Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice:
Русский
By meaning 1
institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice:
place for dispensing:
office for dispensing drugs:

Forms

plural: dispensaries
Singulardispensary
Pluraldispensaries

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms

Word family

1 related words
Relateddispense

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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