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dress-out

dress-out noun: the process of medical staff or patients dressing and equipping themselves in preparation for leaving the hospital.

Noun

dress-out (uncountable)

  1. The process of medical staff or patients dressing and equipping themselves in preparation for leaving the hospital.
    • On the day of the patient's discharge, the patient will be called to 1 of the 2 dress-out rooms. The patient will be dressed out and then will be escorted to the agent cashier's office where he will pick up the money he had had on account, the valuables he has had in safekeeping, and last, but not...1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Traffic In, and Control Of, Narcotics, Barbiturates, and Amphetamines
    • Proper Dress-out.
      1. Radiological emergency response team members dressed-out in waterproof gowns and other standard surgical attire.
      2. Cuffs and inner gloves are taped for contamination control purposes.1984, Robert C. Ricks, Hospital Emergency Department Management of Radiation Accidents

Examples of dress-out in a sentence

  • On the day of the patient's discharge, the patient will be called to 1 of the 2 dress-out rooms.1956, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Traffic In, and Control Of, Narcotics, Barbiturates, and Amphetamines:
  • One crew was initially assigned to the emergency operations center, the second to the emergency response team's (ERT's) dress-out area, […]2007, Philip Jan Rothstein, Disaster Recovery Testing: Exercising Your Contingency Plan:

Origin of dress-out

Deverbal from dress out.

Questions about dress-out

What does dress-out mean?
Dress-out means the process of medical staff or patients dressing and equipping themselves in preparation for leaving the hospital.
How do you use dress-out in a sentence?
On the day of the patient's discharge, the patient will be called to 1 of the 2 dress-out rooms.
What part of speech is dress-out?
Dress-out is a noun.

Words near dress-out in the dictionary

  1. dress-coding
  2. dress-down day
  3. dress-down days
  4. dress-down Friday
  5. dress-goods
  6. dress-out
  7. dress-shirted
  8. dress-suited
  9. dress-up
  10. dress-up game
  11. dress-up games

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