dispensaries

Noun

dispensary (plural dispensaries)

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

   Synonyms:

   dispo

3. (dated) Synonym of pharmacy, particularly one included in a hospital that does not act as a point of sale.
   • He watched for a while, pacing the small, slippery cobbles, then made for the deep shade of a stone porch on the other side of the square, where a sheet with a red cross on it had been draped around a pillar. A two-wheeled field dispensary with no driver stood outside the building.1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 120

   Synonyms:

   pharmacy, particularly one included in a hospital that does not act as a point of sale