noun
1. a period of time when you are confined to a hospital
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now they try to shorten the patient's hospitalization
• Derivationally related forms: ↑hospitalize
• Hypernyms: ↑time period, ↑period of time, ↑period
2. the condition of being treated as a patient in a hospital
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he hoped to avoid the expense of hospitalization
• Derivationally related forms: ↑hospitalize
3. insurance that pays all or part of a patient's hospital expense
• Syn: ↑hospitalization insurance
• Hypernyms: ↑health insurance
4. placing in medical care in a hospital
• Syn: ↑hospitalisation, ↑hospital care
• Derivationally related forms: ↑hospitalise (for: ↑hospitalisation), ↑hospitalize
• Hypernyms: ↑medical care, ↑medical aid
Useful english dictionary. 2012.