Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Public Health Service
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an agency that serves as the office of Surgeon General; includes agencies whose mission is to improve the public health
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Examples
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With its built-in PHS capability, the robot can be used as a hands-free telephone.
Boing Boing: October 6, 2002 - October 12, 2002 Archives 2002
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The Tokyo-based wireless provider of so-called PHS services has lost customers to NTT DoCoMo Inc.,
Bloomberg 2010
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The original design was maroon with white lettering and featured the letters "PHS" for Pitcairn High School on one side, and "THS" for Trafford High School on the other.
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"PHS," author of "The Times Diary," a regular feature of the page facing the editorials, is not known to be above apostrophizing.
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PHS deals with poor people who provide their own narcotics.
Stanton Peele: Living and Dying With And Without Harm Reduction Stanton Peele 2011
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In addition, Darwin Fisher -- Insite's manager -- describes in the video accompanying the article how addicts are spawned and maintained by an environment that rejects them and denies them any access to not only shelter and health care, but opportunities to improve their lots through work and education, as PHS does.
Stanton Peele: Living and Dying With And Without Harm Reduction Stanton Peele 2011
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PHS is the overseeing body for the Insite injection room and related facilities in that same building are detox and a drug-free halfway house -- PHS also runs 30-plus residences for addicts, a bank and a number of businesses where addicts are employed.
Stanton Peele: Living and Dying With And Without Harm Reduction Stanton Peele 2011
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PHS the Portland Hotel Community Services Society invited me to present my vision of addiction and its treatment.
Stanton Peele: Living and Dying With And Without Harm Reduction Stanton Peele 2011
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I know PHS through its executive director, Liz Evans, whom I met in Liverpool when I spoke at the International Harm Reduction Association conference last year.
Stanton Peele: Living and Dying With And Without Harm Reduction Stanton Peele 2011
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The PHS shooting room does not supply the drugs, only clean paraphernalia and a place that people can take them safely and under loose supervision of trained counseling and nursing staff.
Stanton Peele: Living and Dying With And Without Harm Reduction Stanton Peele 2011
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