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# pharmacy

«pharmacy» in Mova's school dictionary: **a shop or part of a shop where medicines are sold and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a pharmacy, pharmacies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pharmacy is a shop or part of a shop where medicines are sold and prescriptions are given out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pharmacy/#m1)

2) Pharmacy is the study and job of preparing medicines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pharmacy/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it is where you take a doctor's prescription. In the UK it is also «chemist's», in the US «drugstore». In safety lessons: only take medicine from a pharmacy with an adult's help, and follow the label. Phrases: «the pharmacy counter», «study pharmacy».

### examples

- Mum went to the pharmacy to pick up my medicine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pharmacy/#x1)
- The pharmacy is next to the supermarket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pharmacy/#x2)
- Ask at the pharmacy about cough medicine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pharmacy/#x3)
- She studied pharmacy at university. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pharmacy/#x4)
- The pharmacy is open late on Thursdays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pharmacy/#x5)
- In the UK we call it the chemist's. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pharmacy/#x6)
- The pharmacist works in the pharmacy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pharmacy/#x7)
- Take your prescription to any pharmacy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pharmacy/#x8)

### note

Plural: pharmacies. «ph» says «f»: FAR-ma-see. A person who works there is a pharmacist. «Chemist» in UK can mean the shop or a pharmacist; in US «chemist» means a scientist.

### In the corpora

- [In the UK a pharmacist trains for about five years: a four-year degree and a year of training in a pharmacy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/20-at-the-pharmacy/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pharmacy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pharmacy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.