vetnoun [ C ]
uk/vet/us/vet/vet noun [ C ] (ANIMAL DOCTOR)
B1 UK formal veterinary surgeon, US formal veterinarian a person with a medical degree trained to take care of the health of animals:
The farmer called the vet out to treat a sick cow.
UK also vet's the office where a vet works:
The cat injured her paw, so I took her to the vet.
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Zoology: veterinary medicine
- alter
- anthrax
- castrate
- cattery
- collar
- delouse
- destroy
- distemper
- foam
- foot-and-mouth
- froth
- geld
- hoof-and-mouth
- leptospirosis
- myxomatosis
- put sth down 1
- quarantine
- rabid
- rabies
- veterinarian
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vet noun [ C ] (ARMED FORCES)
US informal for veteran noun (= a person who has served in the armed forces)
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Soldiers & people who fight in wars
- Anzac
- capability
- combatant
- crusader
- guardsman
- gunner
- infantryman
- lancer
- non-combatant
- orderly
- para
- partisan
- scout
- sentry
- sepoy
- serviceman
- shogun
- soldier
- storm trooper
- veteran
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vetverb [ T ]
uk/vet/us/vet/-tt- mainly UKto examine something or someone carefully to make certain that they are acceptable or suitable:
During the war, the government vetted all news reports before they were published.
The bank carefully vets everyone who applies for an account.
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Analysing and evaluating
- analyse
- analyser
- analyst
- analytical
- analyze
- critical
- go through sth
- have the measure of sb/sth idiom
- inspect
- inspection
- interpretive
- measure
- proof
- sell sb/yourself/sth short idiom
- set great, little, etc. store by sth idiom
- sift
- sit
- sit in judgment on/over sb idiom
- size sth/sb up
- survey
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