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rehabs

rehabs is the plural of rehab.

rehabs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rehab.

Meaning of rehab

Noun

rehab (countable and uncountable, plural rehabs)

  1. (informal, uncountable) Rehabilitation, especially to treat the use of recreational drugs.
    • go into rehab
  2. (countable, informal) An institution for rehabilitation.
    • The assimilationists would have you believe that there is no lesbian or gay underclass, white or of color. That the junkies, crackheads and rummies in the drunk-tanks and welfare rehabs are all straight. Our addicts all have ample checkbooks, the best insurance their professions can buy, and...1990 February 4, Leonard Tirado, “Privatized 'Recovery' Versus Collective Action”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 5
  3. A brief period of time spent away from the fire by a firefighter at a fire scene, for purposes of recuperation.

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Questions about rehabs

What is rehabs the plural of?
Rehabs is the plural of rehab.

Words near rehabs in the dictionary

  1. rehabituates
  2. rehabituating
  3. rehabituation
  4. rehabituations
  5. rehabituative
  6. rehabs
  7. rehad
  8. rehair
  9. rehaired
  10. rehairing
  11. rehairings

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