Word · CEFR C1 · Frequency #23746
dispensary
药房；配药处；诊疗所
clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed
- 1.
A place or room where something is dispensed
配药处；分发处。
- 2.
clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed
分发药品和医疗用品的诊所
配药处；分发处。；分发药品和医疗用品的诊所；(尤指医院的)药房；诊疗所；[医] 医务所；防治所
In use
The nurse told me to collect my medicine from the hospital dispensary before going home.
Many rural clinics now have their own dispensaries so patients do not have to travel far for medicine.
She waited at the dispensary while the pharmacist prepared her prescription.
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。
go to the dispensary
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。
sth is dispensed at the dispensary
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”。
Connections
Collocations
- hospital dispensary
- 医院药房
- The hospital dispensary is open 24 hours a day.医院药房24小时开放。
- local dispensary
- 当地药房
- She gets her medicine from the local dispensary.她从当地药房取药。
- village dispensary
- 乡村诊疗所
- The village dispensary treats minor injuries.乡村诊疗所处理轻伤。
- dispensary staff
- 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。
Synonyms
- pharmacy
- 药房；配药处 · 最通用，可指医院内配药处，也可指独立药店；与 dispensary 基本可互换。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
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。
Context & Register
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。
Pronunciation & Spelling
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.
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