healthcare
noun (healthcare — uncountable)
Everyday
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 →
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».
On Mova
- Trees and pragmatics of «healthcare» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- «healthcare» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/healthcare/