clearing station

noun

clearing station

noun

1

Government, Military, Politics, War A temporary field hospital to treat and classify the sick and wounded.

‘The orders are that we stay here. You clear the wounded from here to the clearing station.’1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 181:

Synonyms: clearing hospital

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