healthcare

«healthcare» in Mova's school dictionary: the work of looking after people's health: doctors… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (healthcare — uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

Healthcare is the work of looking after people's health: doctors, nurses, hospitals, medicine and the help people get when they are ill or hurt. tree →

sense in the lessons

In PSHE, citizenship and news: the NHS in the UK, Medicare in Australia and Canada; healthcare workers; phrases: healthcare worker, free healthcare, access to healthcare.

examples

• In the UK, healthcare is free through the NHS. tree →
• Nurses are important healthcare workers. tree →
• Everyone needs good healthcare. tree →
• Healthcare costs a lot of money in some countries. tree →
• My aunt works in healthcare as a midwife. tree →

note

Uncountable. Written as one word or «health care» (two words, often in the US). Not «a healthcare».

In the corpora

• People disagree about how much healthcare should be public or private, and many countries mix both.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «healthcare» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.