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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
veterinarian
noun
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▪ Charles Ruff, a Ciba-Geigy salesman based in Charlotte, regularly runs lunch-hour training sessions for veterinarians.
▪ Exporters will face extra charges for transporting animals inspected by independently nominated veterinarians, said junior agriculture minister Elliot Morley.
▪ It was a move discounted by the state veterinarian.
▪ Like human drugs, pet medicines are promoted by drug-company salespeople who call on veterinarians with brochures, posters and freebies.
▪ Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the veterinarian.
▪ Sea World veterinarian Jim McBain said the calf is gaining strength and responding to treatment.
▪ Ten consumer groups, along with some veterinarians and meat inspectors, are urging even tougher action.
▪ With the advent of the College, veterinarians increasingly took over the treatment of horses and cattle.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Veterinarian

Veterinarian \Vet`er*i*na"ri*an\, n. [L. veterinarius. See Veterinary.] One skilled in the diseases of cattle or domestic animals; a veterinary surgeon.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
veterinarian

animal doctor, 1640s, from Latin veterinarius "of or having to do with beasts of burden," also, as a noun, "cattle doctor," from veterinum "beast of burden," perhaps from vetus (genitive veteris) "old" (see veteran), possibly from the notion of "experienced," or of "one year old" (hence strong enough to draw burdens). Another theory connects it to Latin vehere "to draw," on notion of "used as a draft animal." Replaced native dog-leech (1520s).

Wiktionary
veterinarian

n. A medical doctor who treats non-human animals.

WordNet
veterinarian

n. a doctor who practices veterinary medicine [syn: veterinary, veterinary surgeon, vet]

Usage examples of "veterinarian".

Harry was incredulous, since Tavener Heyward was one of the most respected equine veterinarians in the country.

Fan Importer, a Glass Beveller, a Hotel Broker, an Insect Exterminator, a Junk Dealer, a Kalsomine Manufacturer, a Laundryman, a Mausoleum Architect, a Nurse, an Oculist, a Paper-Hanger, a Quilt Designer, a Roofer, a Ship Plumber, a Tinsmith, an Undertaker, a Veterinarian, a Wig Maker, an X-ray apparatus manufacturer, a Yeast producer, or a Zinc Spelter.

While in captivity, the cat also broke all its canine teeth, which veterinarians painstakingly recapped before its release.

Silverstein, one of the night patrolmen, was especially interested in the alligator limb that had been brought to the veterinarian for examination.

The veterinarian bowed to it, opened his bag and poured a generous measure of argyrol onto a swab.

He recalled the late 1950S when Roland Lombard, a veterinarian and musher from Massachusetts, stunned the racing community by becoming the first man from outside to win a major Alaskan race.

CHAPTER TWELVE GOING HOME Throughout our time on Guam I continued to go on patrols and to perform my duties as war dog veterinarian with a bottle of paregoric in one back pocket and one of bismuth subnitrate in the other.

I wish to thank our local veterinarian, Gordon Pickering, for sharing a bit of his knowledge with me about parvovirus and its prevention and treatment.

Within two or three successive seconds, millions of people in widely separated areas-factory and office workers, farmers, housewives, shoppers, salesclerks, restaurant operators, printers, service station attendants, stock-brokers, hoteliers, hairdressers, movie projectionists and patrons, streetcar motormen, TV station staffs and viewers, bartenders, mail sorters, wine makers, doctors, dentists, veterinarians, pinball players .

I hate to relate the following, because antiabortionists will just love this story, but I discovered that the cabin had been used in the early 1900s by a veterinarian who performed abortions for the townspeople there.

He shot and killed Bayon, the veterinarian, and Ball, but Brown got away.

They also talk about no tipping, no jukeboxes and no carhops and that they have dentists, salesmen, farmers and veterinarians running their units.

Evans has plans to work with veterinarians in southern California to make composting available to pet owners.

All Creatures Great and Small, Bill Putney reconstructs his World War II experiences with Marine war dogs, in camp and in the Pacific, as a platoon leader and veterinarian.

When the dogs are considered to be temperamentally and physically rehabilitated for return to civilian life, the Head Trainer and the Chief Veterinarian will submit a joint report on the temperamental and physical condition of each dog to the Commanding Officer in writing, with recommendations for final disposition, for transmittal to higher authority.