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# healthcare

noun (healthcare — uncountable)

«healthcare» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

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

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «healthcare» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/healthcare/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«healthcare» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/healthcare.html) on Mova free.