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outpatients

outpatients is the plural 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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Questions about outpatients

What is outpatients the plural of?
Outpatients is the plural of outpatient.

Words near outpatients in the dictionary

  1. outpassioning
  2. outpassions
  3. outpath
  4. outpaths
  5. outpatient
  6. outpatients
  7. outpay
  8. outpaying
  9. outpayment
  10. outpayments
  11. outpays

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outpatients (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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