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out-patient

out-patient is the alternative spelling of outpatient.

Meaning of outpatient

Noun

outpatient (plural outpatients)

  1. A patient who receives treatment at a hospital or clinic but is not admitted overnight; a receiver of ambulatory care.
    • An empty shop at Birmingham New Street station has been converted into an NHS outpatient clinic, to enable patients to have routine blood tests away from hospital.2020 April 8, “Network News: NHS outpatient clinic at New Street”, in Rail, page 13
    Antonyms:
    inpatient

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Forms of out-patient

pluralout-patients

Questions about out-patient

What is out-patient the alternative spelling of?
Out-patient is the alternative spelling of outpatient.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: out-patient (page history and authors); outpatient (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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