ambulance
Americannoun
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a specially equipped motor vehicle, airplane, ship, etc., for carrying sick or injured people, usually to a hospital.
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(formerly) a field hospital.
noun
Etymology
Origin of ambulance
1800–10; < French, equivalent to ( hôpital ) ambul ( ant ) walking (hospital) + -ance -ance. See ambulant
Example Sentences
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His body was discovered when police officers and the ambulance service were called to the property in Society Court at about 11:30 GMT on Monday.
From BBC
Paramedics found Good unresponsive with an irregular pulse, and she was pronounced dead in the ambulance on the way to hospital, according to the report seen by CBS.
From BBC
“Send an ambulance please. Ambulance, please,” the caller told the operator.
"Several families, fearing that the authorities might keep the bodies or bury them without their knowledge, broke open the morgue door and pulled the bodies out of ambulances," the source told the BBC.
From BBC
But he said on some measures, such as ambulance response times, there had been improvement compared to last year.
From BBC
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