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dispensary

[dih-spen-suh-ree] / dɪˈspɛn sə ri /


NOUN
clinic
Synonyms
NOUN
infirmary
Synonyms




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For dispensary owners, wading through government inefficiency burns precious capital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

From the outside, it looks like your standard-issue corporate dispensary, largely because of where it is.

From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2025

She added that her shop was "propping up" the dispensary.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2024

“This project will change the trajectory of their lives forever,” Forrest Parker, general manager for Qualla Enterprises, the tribal company that manages the dispensary, said during the opening ceremony.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2024

Then, in an alcove fanned by the harness-baiTeb, there was a set of shelves which formed the dispensary far side armour.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

The agency can only use “back of the envelope” calculations to estimate whether dispensaries are financially above water.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

So dispensaries can’t deduct typical business expenses from their taxable income.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

“I always say dispensaries are the turducken of retail,” she said.

From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2025

The bill had the support of the United Food and Commercial Workers union, which has unionized workers at dozens of dispensaries and grow facilities in California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2024

But one of the many people who regularly brought unpleasant news of the deluge had told her that the company was dismantling its dispensaries to move them to where it was not raining.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez




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