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am·bu·lance (

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ns)

A specially equipped vehicle used to transport the sick or injured.

[French, from (hôpital) ambulant, mobile (hospital), from Latin ambulns, ambulant-, present participle of ambulre, to walk; see ambhi in Indo-European roots.]

ambulance [ˈæmbjʊləns]

a motor vehicle designed to carry sick or injured people

[from French, based on (hôpital) ambulant mobile or field (hospital), from Latin ambulāre to walk]

ambulance - Once brought the hospital to the patient—and kept the name when it reversed the process and started bringing the patients to the hospital; its original meaning was "mobile hospital following an army."

See also related terms for hospital.

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Noun

ambulance - a vehicle that takes people to and from hospitals

auto, automobile, car, motorcar, machine - a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work"

funny wagon - an ambulance used to transport patients to a mental hospital

Translations

ambulance [ˈæmbjʊləns]

A. N → ambulancia f

B. CPD ambulance chaser N (esp US) (pej) abogado sin escrúpulos a la caza de personas accidentadas cuyos casos reporten jugosos beneficios
ambulance driver N → conductor/a m/f de ambulancia, ambulanciero m
ambulance man N → ambulanciero m

ambulance [ˈæmbjʊləns] n → ambulance f
to call an ambulance → appeler une ambulance
by ambulance → en ambulance ambulance service, ambulance crew, ambulance driver
ambulance chaser n avocat recherchant des victimes d'accidents pour les inciter Ã engager des poursuites judiciaires
ambulance chasing n fait pour un avocat de rechercher des victimes d'accidents pour les inciter Ã engager des poursuites judiciaires
ambulance crew n → ambulanciers mpl
ambulance driver n → ambulancier/iÃ¨re m/f

ambulance

n → Krankenwagen m, → Krankenauto nt, → Ambulanz f; ambulance chasing (US Jur) in den USA verbreitete Praxis von Anwälten, Opfer eines Verbrechens oder Unfalles aufzusuchen und sie zu einer Klage zu veranlassen

ambulance:

ambulance driver

n → Krankenwagenfahrer(in) m(f)

ambulanceman

n → Sanitäter m

ambulance service

n → Rettungs- or Ambulanzdienst m; (system) → Rettungswesen nt

ambulance [ˈæmbjʊləns]

1. n → ambulanza, autoambulanza

2. adj ambulance driver → guidatore/trice d'ambulanza

ambulance

n ambulance [ˈӕmbjuləns]

a vehicle for carrying the sick and injured to hospital etc Call an ambulance – this man is very ill! ambulans سَيَّارَة إسْعاف линейка sanitka ambulance der Krankenwagen ασθενοφόρο ambulancia kiirabiauto آمبولانس ambulanssi ambulance אַמבּוּלַנס एम्बुलेंस kola hitne pomoći mentőautó, a mentők ambulans sjúkrabíll ambulanza 救急車 구급차 greitosios pagalbos mašina ātrās palīdzības mašīna kereta ambulan ambulance ambulanse, sykebil karetka pogotowia ambulância ambulanţă машина скорой помощи sanitka rešilni avto sanitetski automobil ambulans รถพยาบาล ambulans 救護車 машина швидкої допомоги مریض کو لے جانے والی گاڑی xe cấp cứu 救护车

ambulance ends in -ance (not -ence ).

ambulance → سيارة إسعاف sanitka ambulance Rettungswagen ασθενοφόρο ambulancia ambulanssi ambulance kola hitne pomoći ambulanza 救急車 구급차 ambulance ambulanse karetka pogotowia ambulância машина скорой помощи ambulans รถพยาบาล cankurtaran xe cứu thương 救护车

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And I've seen more sights I'd call "sublime" being thrown into a meat wagon in Runcorn town centre at 3am on a Sunday morning.

Boris calls it wrong again by The Mirror (London, England)

My next trip would be in a Spanish meat wagon to the nearest nick.

The great escape by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk

Like finishing another 12-hour slog at Stalag Chronicle, surviving the reprobates on the Meat Wagon and finally getting home.

Off the cuff by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)

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