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pharmacist

[ fahr-muh-sist ]

noun

  1. a person licensed to prepare and dispense drugs and medicines; druggist; apothecary; pharmaceutical chemist.

    Synonyms: chemist



pharmacist

/ ˌfɑːməˈsjuːtɪst; ˈfɑːməsɪst /

noun

  1. a person qualified to prepare and dispense drugs


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pharmacist1

First recorded in 1825–35; pharmac(y) + -ist

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Example Sentences

The pharmacist, who has agreed to plead guilty to charges of attempting to spoil the vaccine, also believes the Earth is flat and that the sky is not real, according to court documents.

She takes English classes on Saturday mornings and is completing an evening course to get certified as a pharmacist technician, the job she held in Honduras.

The state will also deploy pharmacists for vaccinations at certain Safeway and Rite Aid stores.

If there are no-shows for vaccination appointments, pharmacists have to quickly find replacements before the thawed vaccines expire.

Their ranks have included construction workers, insurance agents and pharmacists.

Maurice de Palo, a pharmacist at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx.

A pharmacist told her the medication was for women—and her identification still listed her as a male.

But no, they picked a medication that would make every doctor, nurse, and pharmacist in the audience choke on their popcorn.

A more recent wrinkle is the doctor who prescribes from his own office, cutting out the middleman (read: pharmacist).

A trainee pharmacist standing near the blast lost an eye and suffered head injuries.

She did not know what doctor prescribed the medicaments, nor the pharmacist who supplied them.

I have taken it for years and you dont need a skilled Pharmacist to compound it.

The man who had suggested that the hotel pharmacist could dispense hot drinks other than lemonade nudged an acquaintance.

The drugs imitated are standard medical preparations, dispensed on physician's prescription by every retail pharmacist.

No one connected with the company is a regularly licensed pharmacist or graduate chemist.

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