bedspace
nounEtymology From bed + space.
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Medicine, Sciences Space available for patients in hospital beds or inmates in prison beds.
- She said Cuomo's call for 8,000 more bedspaces in New York prisons would cost the state $30,000 per prisoner per year.1990 April 7, Jennie McKnight, “Suit Filed Against N.Y. Governor and Prison Officials”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
- For example, the Patient's Charter requires nurses to respect the privacy, dignity and confidentiality of patients, yet planners still design bedspace divided by flimsy curtains, in multi-million pound projects.2013, Michael Bowman, The Professional Nurse: Coping with Change, Now and the Future:
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Philippines The use of a bed in a private home, often rented out by the month.
- Derived terms
- bedspacer, bedspacing