wheelchairnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈwiːl.tʃeər/us/ˈwiːl.tʃer/B1 a chair on wheels that people who are unable to walk use for moving around:
He spent the last ten years of his life in a wheelchair after a fall that left him paralysed from the waist down.
The building isn't designed very well from the point of view of wheelchair access.
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