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owing

noun/ˈəʊɪŋ/

B2CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

A portion of a prescribed quantity that cannot be supplied immediately and is recorded as owed to the patient for later collection.

We could only give her forty tablets today, so I've put the remaining twenty on an owing for Thursday.

Similar: owings

Topic: Pharmacy practice in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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