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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/healthcare/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/healthcare/#x1)
- Nurses are important healthcare workers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/healthcare/#x2)
- Everyone needs good healthcare. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/healthcare/#x3)
- Healthcare costs a lot of money in some countries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/healthcare/#x4)
- My aunt works in healthcare as a midwife. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/healthcare/#x5)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/20-healthcare-who-pays-when-you-are-ill/25/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «healthcare» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/healthcare/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.