district nurse

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noun

(in Britain) a nurse employed within the National Health Service to attend patients in a particular area, usually by visiting them in their own homes

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How to use district nurse in a sentence

So, in an unusual order (PDF) issued on New Years Day, District Judge Robert Hinkle clarified the issue.
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It cost several thousand dollars and a high-powered former district attorney to get the charges dropped.
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In the weeks following the Sept. 9, car bombing at the Iranian base, Iran raided a village in the Pakistani district of Chagai.
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In January 2014, a lifelong District of Columbia parks employee, Medric Mills, collapsed while walking with his grown daughter.
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But Olds did more than build Nurse-Family Partnership; he did the rigorous evaluation to prove it would work.
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Thus far Boston banks have received more benefits from this bank than have the other banks in this district.
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There were other children beside, and two nurse-maids followed, looking disagreeable and resigned.
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And sure enough when Sunday came, and the pencil was restored to him, he promptly showed nurse his picture.
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Jean clung to his English nurse, who played the fascinating game of pretending to eat his hand.
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The rebellion spread to their district, and many of the natives on and about the estate were eager to join in the movement.
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