ambulance

UK /ˈæm.bjə.ləns/ US /ˈæm.bjə.ləns/
noun 5verb 1

Definitions

noun

1

An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital.

The NHS is bracing itself for its worst ever winter crisis descending in the next fortnight because of a worsening “flu-nami” that has left hospitals, GP surgeries and ambulances services under intense strain.

2

A mobile field hospital.

3

A vehicle used for the transportation of dead people, typically to a mortuary.

4

Synonym of stretcher, a litter used for medical transport.

5

Synonym of covered wagon.

verb

1

To transport by ambulance.

Ambulancing patients with acute obstruction over cobble and rails should not be tolerated; better render the necessary service where the patient is found.

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