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MEDICAL SOCIAL WORKER

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Dictionary entry overview: What does medical social worker mean?

• MEDICAL SOCIAL WORKER (noun)
The noun MEDICAL SOCIAL WORKER has 1 sense:

1. an official in a British hospital who looks after the social and material needs of the patients

Familiarity information: MEDICAL SOCIAL WORKER used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• MEDICAL SOCIAL WORKER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An official in a British hospital who looks after the social and material needs of the patients

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

almoner; medical social worker

Hypernyms ("medical social worker" is a kind of...):

caseworker; social worker; welfare worker (someone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged))

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