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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

Once, the Kardashians were unique in the way they shared every moment of their lives with viewers—just look at Kourtney, who gave birth to her son Mason with an entire camera crew in the delivery room.

No doctor or nurse was in the delivery room, and her mom, Allyson Williams, was so numbed by pain blockers that she didn’t realize she had given birth in her hospital bed.

My first experience with this happened when my in-laws rushed into the delivery room as soon as they were allowed.

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The family was gathered in a hospital delivery room waiting for Khloé Kardashian to give birth, mere days after a video surfaced online that showed Khloé’s boyfriend, Cleveland Cavaliers NBA star Tristan Thompson, making out with another woman.

We heard rumors that maybe dads were not going to be able to be in delivery rooms.

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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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