orderlies in English

noun
1
an attendant in a hospital responsible for the nonmedical care of patients and the maintenance of order and cleanliness.
The agreement covers staff working in various roles such as orderlies , patient care assistants, kitchen staff, catering attendants and gardeners.
2
a soldier who carries out orders or performs minor tasks for an officer.
They had served in the field as nurses and ambulance drivers and performed military support roles as cooks and orderlies , clerical workers, telephonists, and signallers.
noun
    hospital attendant

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1. Male orderlies only.

2. It's not about becoming a sad couple of orderlies.

3. After lights out, the orderlies play cards in here.

4. A trolley was wheeled past by two brutish-looking orderlies chewing gum.

5. One of the orderlies, in defiance of the Prophet, began to lay bets.

6. 22 Male orderlies took the post-morphia cases to tidy places in our little mortuary.

7. Tilda, unabashed, was out in the pantry, helping the ward orderlies take the lids off the supper trays.

8. Nursing Assistants and orderlies work as part of a healthcare team under the supervision of licensed practical or licensed vocational nurses and registered nurses