Collocations for "hospital"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "hospital" in context.
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hospital
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [general, public, research, county, regional, university, teaching] hospital
- a children's hospital
- [an animal, a livestock, a horse] hospital
- a hospital for [animals]
- is in the hospital [for, with]
- [admitted, taken] to the hospital [for, with]
- go to the hospital for treatment
- need to go to the hospital
- rushed him to the hospital
- was rushed off to hospital
- got to the hospital too late
- UK: [is in, was rushed to] hospital
- is hospital policy that
- hospital [services, care]
- [great, terrible] hospital staff
- (lying) in a hospital bed
'hospital' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
administrator
- admission
- admit
- affair
- alternate
- animal
- apron
- bed
- birth
- board
- born
- career
- chairman
- closure
- collateral
- comfort
- commit
- cornerstone
- county
- crowd
- diploma
- discharge
- dispatch
- donor
- dying
- end
- endowed
- escort
- face
- fellow
- ferry
- forbid
- grandmother
- haunt
- horse
- ill
- induce
- injured
- inner
- insure
- intern
- invoice
- isolation
- labor
- lawsuit
- medical
- midwife
- monitor
- nurse
- orderly