chemist
(kemɪst )
Word forms: chemists
1. countable noun A2
A chemist or a chemist's is a shop where drugs and medicines are sold or given out, and where you can buy cosmetics and some household goods. [British]
There are many creams available from the chemist which should clear the infection.
She went into a chemist's and bought some aspirin.
Synonyms: pharmacist, apothecary [obsolete], pharmacologist, dispenser
2. countable noun A2
A chemist is someone who works in a chemist's shop and is qualified to prepare and sell medicines. [British]
regional note: in AM, use druggist, pharmacist3. countable noun B1
A chemist is a person who does research connected with chemistry or who studies chemistry.
She worked as a research chemist.
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Collocations:
chemist shop industrial chemist organic chemist research chemist
Cops broke into the flat after staff in the chemist shop finally alerted them.
The Sun (2009)
Your chemist shop should be able to provide you with most of the ingredients.
The Vitamin Fact Finder (1987)
The risk is that if the surgery goes the chemist shop will be next and, five years hence, the post office.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
He spent the next five years as an industrial chemist.
Times, Sunday Times
It's something an industrial chemist has cooked up in a lab.
Times, Sunday Times
A worker at a crisps factory, a retired company director and an industrial chemist were among the team who won the top award in the floral pavilion.
Times, Sunday Times
He worked variously as a builder, industrial chemist, and factory manager, and in later life, as a caretaker and maintenance supervisor.
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He starts a new job as an industrial chemist and gets a room in a hotel.
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He was a teacher and organic chemist with a major interest in pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry.
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He was an organic chemist whose research was in the field of natural product synthesis.
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As an organic chemist, he specializes in stereochemical syntheses.
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He was shocked to discover that he was the sole organic chemist there.
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Bell could be called by the hybrid term, a physical organic chemist, since he investigated the use of physicochemical methods to discover the mechanisms of organic reactions.
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I left a job as a research chemist in industry three years ago and retrained as a science teacher.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
My husband - he was a research chemist - loves music.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
I spend most of my time in my chair, have a job as a research chemist, and live a happy family life.
The Sun (2012)
Translations:
Chinese: 药剂师
Japanese: 薬局
- blood on one's hands
- blood on the carpet
- blood oozes
- blood poisoning
- blood pressure
- blood pressure cuff
- blood pressure reading
- blood protein
- blood pudding
- blood pumps
- blood-red
- blood red
- blood relation
- blood relative
- blood relative
- bloodshed
- bloodshot
- bloodshot eyes
- blood sister
- blood-sister
- blood sport
- bloodsport
- blood spots
- blood spurts
- bloodstain