mobile unit

noun

1. a vehicle supplied with the basic equipment or materials necessary for a particular purpose, as for televising on location or being used as an x-ray or inoculation clinic.
2. a transceiver in a vehicle or carried by a person.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mobile unit¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

Smaller doctor’s offices or community clinics, or mobile units that go into long-term care facilities, for example, won’t have to store all three vaccines, but instead could focus on one, streamlining the logistics of their vaccination efforts.

From Time

Next he went to a mobile unit, where a nurse in a blue coat swabbed his arm with alcohol, told him to “put your mind in a nice place,” and administered a swift jab of the needle.

From Washington Post

States would look at places with the highest rates of Covid-19 cases, then saturate those areas with mass vaccination centers, mobile units, and other resources.

From Vox

Jha said one way to alleviate such concerns may be to target places where, say, people of color live with vaccine centers or mobile units — not to put them ahead in line, but to ensure they can get vaccines quickly when it’s their turn.

From Vox

The horn detector, however, was large and cumbersome and not satisfactory for a mobile unit.

From Project Gutenberg

Their mobile unit was held up that day in a little ruined city.

From Project Gutenberg

The division had continued its drive, but slowly, and no orders had come for the mobile unit to go forward.

From Project Gutenberg