wheelchair-user

A form of wheelchair user — A person who is injured or disabled and uses a wheelchair for mobility, usually long-term.

Meanings

nounwheelchair-user (plural wheelchair-users)

plural wheelchair-users

  1. alternativeAlternative form of wheelchair user.

    Elevated dining areas without ramp access don’t allow wheelchair-users to be customers.

    2023 January 30, Sarah Grochowski, “Permanent restaurant patios go to public debate next month”, in Vancouver Sun, page A3
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    For wheelchair-users there are separate pockets fitted to the chair arm which take the burden off clothes.

    1962 March 23, James N. Miller, “Design Easy-to-Fit Garb for Disabled”, in Asbury Park Evening Press, eighty-third year, number 70, Asbury Park, N.J., page 26

    Known as “space shoes” to the researchers, a revolutionary type of boot to enable wheelchair-users with rheumatic feet to walk without pain is being developed at St. Stephen’s Hospital, Chelsea.

    1966 June 3, “‘Space shoes’ pioneered at St. Stephen’s”, in Chelsea News, West London Press, number 5,512, page one
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APA

wheelchair-user. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wheelchair-user

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“wheelchair-user.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wheelchair-user. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wheelchair-user,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wheelchair-user.

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