field hospital

noun

, Military.

1. an organization of medical personnel with medical equipment for establishing a temporary hospital at isolated posts or in the field to support ground troops in combat.

field hospital

noun

1. a temporary hospital set up near a battlefield equipped to provide remedial surgery and post-operative care

Word History and Origins

Origin of field hospital¹

First recorded in 1695–1705

Example Sentences

In the Atlanta area, nearly every major hospital is almost full, prompting state officials to reopen a field hospital for the third time.

From Washington Post

More commonly associated with war zones than one of the world’s most sophisticated medical systems, field hospitals are a sad symbol of how poorly the United States has handled the pandemic.

From Washington Post

This week, Rhode Island became the latest state to begin sending patients to a temporary field hospital because of rising demand for beds, as residents received an emergency alert on their phones warning them that hospitals were full.

From Washington Post

They largely went unused then, but they have been kept intact as field hospitals in anticipation of the winter surge.

From Washington Post

In some cases that meant sending election officials to personally collect ballots from military encampments and field hospitals.

From Ozy

The Caiman offers a range of option packages, from bristling-with-machine-guns, to monster-truck-field-hospital.

From The Daily Beast

Finally, with no sign of a let up in the Russian shelling, he took the decision that the field hospital had to be evacuated.

From The Daily Beast

Pope Francis told an interviewer last year that the church should be a, “field hospital after battle.”

From The Daily Beast

Loubani and Greyson found themselves inside the Fateh Mosque, which had become an ad hoc sanctuary, field hospital and morgue.

From The Daily Beast

Draper assisted his Lieutenant, the real Donald Draper, in building a field hospital during the Korean War.

From The Daily Beast

Soon after he was shot down, he was carried to the field hospital, where he died and was buried the following day.

From Project Gutenberg

Twice used as a field hospital, it stood until 1950 when, in ruinous condition, it was dismantled.

From Project Gutenberg

She told the corporal in charge that she was attached to the Baron de Mlide's field hospital and must get to her work.

From Project Gutenberg

A large field hospital had been set up close to the banks of the stream at Taza.

From Project Gutenberg

Suddenly it began to drop bombs and, whether by design or otherwise, they exploded in the middle of a field hospital.

From Project Gutenberg