pharmacy
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2.3
- noun
- /ˈfɑːrməsi/
:
farmacia
- It was kind of like your drugstore and your pharmacy and your like grocery store in one store.
- pharmacies fill prescriptions
- pharmacies dispense
- buy at pharmacies
I think we stand outside of pharmacies and protest Viagra.
- I think we stand outside of pharmacies and protest Viagra.
- And literally those community pharmacies are eating that loss.
- I should switch pharmacies because who cares, right?
- Some of the local pharmacy chains are suing them.
- Can you buy that drug from the pharmacy in Canada?
- Increasingly, states started using compounding pharmacies, that is, these local pharmacies that put the drugs together.
- And that's data that's come from the sharps exchanges at pharmacies.
- People call it different things, but you can buy these at any pharmacy.
Examples
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I've got to go to the pharmacy to get amicar for Matt.
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Following his doctor's advice, Samuel went to the pharmacy and became instantly frustrated and overwhelmed.
Academic text (2008) -
I buy this from a German pharmacy online.
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I could take a heat pack like the kind you buy at the pharmacy, break it up, gets hot.
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The pharmacy should have some.
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You can pick it up at the pharmacy.
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This life saving medication should be affordable and available at every pharmacy in the country.
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Did you pick up the Preparation H from the pharmacy?
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Drive straight to a pharmacy and buy some ointment for this child,' I said.
Academic text (2015) -
I was running home from the pharmacy when I slipped and fell.
Synonyms
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1.0
A shop that sells medicine and everyday items like soap and snacks
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8.9
A shop that sells medicines and fills prescriptions
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4.7
A place in a hospital or clinic where staff prepare and give out medicines to patients
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1.9
A shop that sells medicines and other health items like toiletries
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8.1
A shop that sells medicines and fills prescriptions
A shop where you buy medicines and other health items
A shop where a person makes and sells medicines and home remedies
How Comprehensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
pharmacy = pharmac + acy
Although composed of the combining form 'pharmac' + the noun-forming suffix '-acy', the meaning 'shop where medicines are sold' is not transparently derivable by learners from those parts because 'pharmac' is not a familiar standalone English word.
Etymology
Pharmacy comes from the Greek word pharmakon, which means 'medicine' or 'drug', and long ago it was used for places that kept medicines. So a pharmacy today is a shop where you buy or pick up medicines and other health items.