Usually means: Assistants in healthcare, support staff.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word orderlies:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. orderlies: Merriam-Webster
  2. orderlies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. orderlies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. orderlies: Vocabulary.com
  5. Orderlies, orderlies: Wordnik
  6. orderlies: Wiktionary
  7. Orderlies, orderlies: Dictionary.com
  8. orderlies: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Orderlies: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Orderlies: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. orderlies: FreeDictionary.org
  12. orderlies: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. orderlies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. orderlies: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. orderlies: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. orderlies: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. orderlies: Medical dictionary

(Note: See orderly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (orderly)

adjective:  Neat and tidy; possessing order.
adjective:  Methodical or systematic.
adjective:  Peaceful; well-behaved.
adjective:  Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders.
noun:  A hospital attendant given a variety of non-medical duties.
noun:  (military) A soldier who carries out minor tasks for a superior officer.
adverb:  (now rare) According to good order or practice; appropriately, in a well-behaved or orderly (adjective) way.
adverb:  (obsolete) In order; in a particular order or succession; with a suitable arrangement.
▸ Also see orderly


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