1. a person employed by a hospital to help patients with their financial and social problems, now usually called a medical social worker
   Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French aumonier, based on medieval Latin eleemosynarius, from eleemosyna ‘alms’, from Greek eleÄ“mosunÄ“ ‘compassion’, from eleÄ“mōn ‘compassionate’, from eleos ‘mercy’.

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