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hospitallike

hospitallike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a hospital.

Adjective

hospitallike (comparative more hospitallike, superlative most hospitallike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a hospital.
    • Well, you know, you kind of put your finger on it when you talked about the hospitallike nature of many nursing homes.2005 August 23, Neal Conan, “Finding the Best Care for Mom and Dad”, in NPR
    • “You need skilled specialists available in hospitallike settings to manage patient caseloads and, especially, to deal with high-needs patients on respirators or [others] who need special care,” says Padula, who is now expanding his analysis to include doctors.2020 August 4, Karen Weintraub, “Not Just Ventilators: Staff Trained to Run Them Are in Short Supply”, in Scientific American

Forms of hospitallike

comparativemore hospitallike
superlativemost hospitallike

Origin of hospitallike

From hospital + -like.

Questions about hospitallike

What does hospitallike mean?
Hospitallike means resembling or characteristic of a hospital.
What part of speech is hospitallike?
Hospitallike is an adjective.

Words near hospitallike in the dictionary

  1. hospitalizers
  2. hospitalizes
  3. hospitalizing
  4. hospitaller
  5. hospitallers
  6. hospitallike
  7. hospitalman
  8. hospitals
  9. hospitate
  10. hospitated
  11. hospitates

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