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nonhospital

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English

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Etymology

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From non- +‎ hospital.

Adjective

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nonhospital (not comparable)

  1. Not in or relating to a hospital.
    • 1982, Research issues in the assessment of birth settings:
      They recommended that prospective studies should be based on the mothers' intention to have a nonhospital delivery.
    • 2007 January 18, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “G.E. May Buy Abbott’s Diagnostic Unit”, in New York Times[1]:
      The Abbott product line would help G.E. add nursing homes and other nonhospital medical settings to its base, analysts said.

Noun

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nonhospital (plural nonhospitals)

  1. An institution that is not a hospital.
    • 1988, LaVonne Straub, Norman Walzer, Financing Rural Health Care, page 97:
      Nonhospitals could replace the least utilized hospitals, and the area's strengthened surviving hospital could serve as the provider of secondary care for the communities that develop nonhospitals.