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delivery room

noun

  1. an area in a hospital equipped for delivering babies.
  2. a room or area in which deliveries are made or received, as the section of a public library where books are taken out or returned.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of delivery room1

First recorded in 1945–50

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Example Sentences

Quentin is no longer that little discolored alien placed on my chest in the delivery room.

Marin also suggests that forcing men into the delivery room when they would rather be elsewhere is unwise.

Or, perhaps, it has something to do with history—and the fact that dads in the delivery room wasn't always an option.

But a father's presence in the delivery room remains a touchy subject.

Thankfully, Bobby was in the delivery room for the first and the second.

A delivery room shall be provided; it must be ready at all times and used for no other purpose.

Class C. General hospital with either delivery room or nursery and general hospital using the operating room for delivery.

Class B. Hospital with maternity department with fully equipped delivery room and nursery.

Every infant shall be marked for identification before it is taken from delivery room.

A library has in its delivery room certain shelves on which appear all the new books that are bought, regardless of class.

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