Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Shared with usually one to three other hospital patients: a semiprivate room.
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- adj. More private than usual accommodations, but not fully private; used especially of a hospital room that is shared by two patients in contradistinction to a ward containing many patients.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. confined to a small number of hospital patients
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Examples
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But this is a whole different ball game now, so he seems to be enjoying those last kind of semiprivate moments with his family while he kind of looks forward to what will be an administration certainly under the glare.
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Announced a couple of weeks ago, the Groups feature allows Facebook users to carry on semiprivate conversations with (as Facebook advertises them) "small groups of friends."
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He was charged $11,590 per night for his ICU room; $7,407 per night for a semiprivate room before he was moved to the ICU; $145,432 for drugs; $41,696 for respiratory services.
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On the floor, Harry is in the second bed in a semiprivate room.
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It was some sort of semiprivate inside joke they shared, a running satire on the macho school jocks who always greeted one another in a similar fashion.
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The semiprivate Quicksand Golf Course in San Angelo draws its water from the Concho River, but the flow was so low for much of the summer that course superintendent Logan Knapp was able to claim only about a quarter of the club's contractual allotment.
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But with the average national cost of a semiprivate room in a nursing home at about $70,000, most seniors do need Medicaid eventually.
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India's approach to privatization has not involved dismantling large PSUs but converting them into semiprivate companies that compete with fully private companies.
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Her mother had a semiprivate room, but the second bed was currently empty.
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You can choose to stay in a dorm or semiprivate room with rates as low as one week for $380.
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