Meaning

2 senses
  1. A hospital attendant given a variety of non-medical duties.

    Pflegehelfer, Krankenpfleger

    санита́рsanitár, санита́ркаsanitárka

    a male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients

  2. A soldier who carries out minor tasks for a superior officer.

    Ordonnanzsoldat, Ordonnanz

    ордина́рецordinárec, вестово́йvestovój, денщи́кdenščík

    a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer

Examples

18 sentences
  1. Are you an orderly?

  2. Why can't you keep an orderly house?

  3. Sami worked at the hospital as an orderly.

  4. When Tom was young, he was orderly and proper.

  5. Everything seemed neat and orderly at a first glance.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
hospital attendant given a variety of non-medical duties:
soldier who carries out minor tasks for a superior officer — see also batman:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
hospital attendant given a variety of non-medical duties:
soldier who carries out minor tasks for a superior officer — see also batman:

Forms

plural: orderlies
Singularorderly
Pluralorderlies

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a male hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patients:hospital attendant

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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