Meanings
nounflying doctor (plural flying doctors)
plural flying doctors
- AustraliaespeciallyA doctor who uses a light aircraft to visit patients, especially in remote and sparsely inhabited regions.
In return for containing development to agreed areas, the conservancy offers clean water in the form of boreholes, medical care in the form of flying doctors, jobs in the form of rangers, a share of bushmeat every year, ready killed, plus meat gifted from the trophy hunters, at their discretion.
2026 April 21, Cal Flyn, “On the trail with the hunters who believe shooting big game can save Africa’s wildlife”, in The Guardian
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