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nonhospital

nonhospital adjective: not in or relating to a hospital.

Adjective

nonhospital (not comparable)

  1. Not in or relating to a hospital.
    • They recommended that prospective studies should be based on the mothers' intention to have a nonhospital delivery.1982, Research issues in the assessment of birth settings
    • The Abbott product line would help G.E. add nursing homes and other nonhospital medical settings to its base, analysts said.2007 January 18, Andrew Ross Sorkin, “G.E. May Buy Abbott’s Diagnostic Unit”, in New York Times

Noun

nonhospital (plural nonhospitals)

  1. An institution that is not a hospital.
    • Nonhospitals could replace the least utilized hospitals, and the area's strengthened surviving hospital could serve as the provider of secondary care for the communities that develop nonhospitals.1988, LaVonne Straub, Norman Walzer, Financing Rural Health Care, page 97

Forms of nonhospital

pluralnonhospitals

Origin of nonhospital

From non- + hospital. Piecewise doublet of nonhotel.

Questions about nonhospital

What does nonhospital mean?
Nonhospital means not in or relating to a hospital.
What part of speech is nonhospital?
Nonhospital can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nonhospital in the dictionary

  1. nonhorror
  2. nonhorse
  3. nonhorses
  4. nonhorticultural
  5. nonhospice
  6. nonhospital
  7. nonhospitalised
  8. nonhospitalist
  9. nonhospitalists
  10. nonhospitality
  11. nonhospitalized

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