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nursing home

  1. a residence equipped and staffed to provide care for the infirm, chronically ill, disabled, etc.
  2. Chiefly Brit. a small private hospital

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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