1 (AmE also druggist) a person whose job is to prepare medicines and sell or give them to the public in a shop/store or in a hospital:
We had to wait for the pharmacist to make up her prescription.
compareCHEMIST
2 (pharmacist's) (plural pharmacists) (BrE) a shop that sells medicines:
They sell vitamin supplements at the pharmacist's.
compareCHEMIST
seealsoPHARMACY
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