English-French translations for patient

• patient
  Nous sommes experts s’agissant d’exporter nos patients. We are adept at exporting our patients.
  Il a raison: je suis un patient mobile. He is right: I am a mobile patient myself.
  Les patients bien informés demandent plus de travail, plus d'efforts. Informed patients mean more work, more effort.
• patient patiente
• patiente

Definition of patient

• Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting
• Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent
• Physically able to suffer or bear
• A person or animal who receives treatment from a doctor or other medically educated person
• The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action
• One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient

Examples

• Be patient: your friends will arrive in a few hours.
• patient endeavour
• The subject of a passive verb is usually a patient

Related words

• impatient
• impatiently
• outpatient
• patiently
• patients
• inpatient
• daypatient
• patient safety
• patient injury