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at the dispensary
dispensary 可指医院的药房，也可指诊疗所或配药处；常与 at/in 连用表示地点。
She works at the dispensary.
她在药房工作。
药房；配药处；诊疗所
dispensaries — plural of dispensary
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
药房；配药处；诊疗所
clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed
She works at the dispensary.
她在药房工作。
配药处；分发处。
A place or room where something is dispensed
分发药品和医疗用品的诊所
clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed
The nurse told me to collect my medicine from the hospital dispensary before going home.
护士告诉我在回家之前去医院药房取药。
Many rural clinics now have their own dispensaries so patients do not have to travel far for medicine.
许多乡村诊所现在都有自己的药房，这样病人就不必走远路去买药了。
She waited at the dispensary while the pharmacist prepared her prescription.
药剂师配药时，她在药房等候。
dispensary 可指医院的药房，也可指诊疗所或配药处；常与 at/in 连用表示地点。
She works at the dispensary.
她在药房工作。
go to 后接地点名词，表示前往；collect one's prescription 指领取处方药。
He went to the dispensary to collect his prescription.
他去药房取药。
dispense 是动词“配发、发放”，被动结构 sth is dispensed at... 表示“某物在某处配发”。
These medicines are dispensed at the dispensary.
这些药在药房配发。
Not this
I need to go to dispensary.
Use this
I need to go to the dispensary.
dispensary 是可数名词单数，前面必须有冠词或其他限定词；中文没有冠词，学习者易漏掉 the。
Not this
The water dispensary is empty.
Use this
The water dispenser is empty.
dispensary 指配药或诊疗的场所，dispenser 才是指饮水机这类发放物品的装置；后缀 -ary 表地点，-er 表人或器械，用错后缀会改变词义。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
医院药房
The hospital dispensary is open 24 hours a day.
医院药房24小时开放。
当地药房
She gets her medicine from the local dispensary.
她从当地药房取药。
乡村诊疗所
The village dispensary treats minor injuries.
乡村诊疗所处理轻伤。
药房工作人员
The dispensary staff prepared my prescription.
药房工作人员配好了我的处方。
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联想dispense（分发、配药）加场所后缀-ary：药房就是配发药品的地方，拼写像dis-pens-ary。
语域：neutral 常见场景：hospital、clinic、outpatient department 该词为中性偏正式用语，多用于医院、诊所等医疗机构，指配药或发放药品的地方；日常口语中更常用 pharmacy 或 drugstore。
No common word rhymes with dispensary /dɪˈspɛnsɝi/. Dispense and suspense genuinely match the /spɛns/ spelling-sound chunk, but dispensary adds /ɝi/, so they are not full rhymes. The -ary words share the final spelling -ary but usually have different stress and vowels, so they are useful lookalikes rather than rhymes.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, OCTANOVE, WIKTIONARY.