| 单词 | ghost patient |
| 释义 | > as lemmasghost patient d. As a modifier, designating a person named on a record who proves difficult or impossible to trace, as in ghost student, ghost patient, etc. Cf. sense A. 11b. ΚΠ 1925 Washington Post 22 Mar. (Features section) 3/2 The question [of] how to deal with ‘ghost students’, who never even show their faces at schools, and a number of other riddles in connection with the new immigration law remain to be cleared up. 1985 Times 2 Feb. 29/2 The TSB also has hundreds of thousands of ‘ghost’ customers who will also be entitled to preferential treatment if they come out of the woodwork. ‘Ghost’ customers hold accounts which have not been used since the TSB computerised all its accounts in 1971. 2021 Doctors (transcript of TV programme) (Nexis) 10 Feb. Whether through mismanagement or purposeful fraud, these ghost patients cost our NHS £88 million a year, so it's vital we get them off the books. < as lemmas |
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