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flying doctors

flying doctors is the plural of flying doctor.

Meaning of flying doctor

Noun

flying doctor (plural flying doctors)

  1. (Australia, especially) A doctor who uses a light aircraft to visit patients, especially in remote and sparsely inhabited regions.
    • In return for containing development to agreed areas, the conservancy offers clean water in the form of boreholes, medical care in the form of flying doctors, jobs in the form of rangers, a share of bushmeat every year, ready killed, plus meat gifted from the trophy hunters, at their discretion.2026 April 21, Cal Flyn, “On the trail with the hunters who believe shooting big game can save Africa’s wildlife”, in The Guardian

Questions about flying doctors

What is flying doctors the plural of?
Flying doctors is the plural of flying doctor.

Words near flying doctors in the dictionary

  1. flying disc golf
  2. flying discs
  3. flying disk
  4. flying disks
  5. flying doctor
  6. flying doctors
  7. flying dragon
  8. flying dragons
  9. Flying Dutchman
  10. Flying Dutchmen
  11. flying eaves

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