(healthcare) An area for patients who require more intensive observation, treatment and nursing care than would be usually provided on a general ward. A standard of care between the general ward and full intensive care.

(computing, database normalization) A functional dependency of an attribute on a superset of itself.

(computing, database normalization) A constraint between two sets of attributes in a relation.

(law enforcement) Police force, especially a local or regional branch of a national police force.

plural of dependent clause

(ecology) Regulation of population growth by mechanisms controlled by the size of the population; especially the curtailment of growth by crowding, predators and competition

Alternative spelling of depolarize

A discount store; a department store with reduced prices.

plural of discount department store

(euphemistic) A man's penis, or its attributes.