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| camping |
the activity of staying for a while in an outdoor place and sleeping in a tent, or sleeping in another type of shelter made for staying overnight in natural places. |
| clinic |
a place that gives medical treatment, usually to people who do not need to stay in a hospital overnight. |
| outpatient |
a person who is being treated at a hospital or clinic but who is not kept there overnight. |
| overnight |
If you stay somewhere overnight, if means you stay there from the evening of one day until the morning of the next day. [4 definitions] |
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