healthcare

US/ˈhɛlθkɛɚ/

nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,168 of 15,258mostly written

Healthcare is the services that look after people's health. Free healthcare, healthcare workers, the healthcare system.

It covers everything from a pharmacist to a hospital, and how it is paid for is the dividing line between political systems. Britain writes it as one word or two, and health care was the older form.

Definitions of healthcare

1nounhealthcareThe services that look after people's health.B2+
“Everyone in the country has the right to free healthcare.”

healthcare is a service.

Where it comes from

From health + care.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

healthcare in the wild

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Health economics
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Health economics
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Patient
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Universal health care
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GE HealthCare

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