urgent care
Americannoun
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medical care and services provided, typically in an urgent care center, to people with urgent but not serious medical problems.
access to urgent care.
Etymology
Origin of urgent care
First recorded in 1955–60
Example Sentences
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The first is coverage of day-to-day preventive care that includes medications to manage a chronic condition or quick visits to urgent care.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026
This service, used for nonemergency primary and urgent care, remains the largest part of its business.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
She was eventually airlifted by her insurance company north-east to Tenerife in the Canary Islands for urgent care on 16 October and died in the early hours of the next day.
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026
One man with a serious heart condition had not seen a cardiologist and the other needed needed urgent care related to what he feared was prostate cancer.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026
She didn’t know where the closest urgent care was, but she was sure it wasn’t within walking distance.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
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