free clinics
free clinics is the plural of free clinic.
Meaning of free clinic
Noun
free clinic (plural free clinics)
- A health care facility offering services to economically disadvantaged individuals for free or at a nominal cost.
- By 1971, the free clinics began to come under strong criticism from the health Left, both because their inability to give quality day-to-day care and their function within the system as a whole (the direct cooptation of the movement by the NFCC).1989, Lily M. Hoffman, The Politics of Knowledge: Activist Movements in Medicine and Planning, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 105
- Synonyms:
- hippie clinic
Questions about free clinics
- What is free clinics the plural of?
- Free clinics is the plural of free clinic.
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