health care
noun
variants:
or healthcare \ ˈhelth-ˌker also ˈheltth- 
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Definition of health care
: efforts made to maintain or restore physical, mental, or emotional well-being especially by trained and licensed professionals
—usually hyphenated when used attributively health-care providers
Examples of health care in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Additional legislation would expand notification periods before power companies shut off electricity to customers, especially to health care facilities and first responders, during times of high fire risk. — Julie Cart, The Mercury News, "What to know as California’s peak fire months loom," 30 Aug. 2019 Nonresidential building starts include office, retail, hotels, warehouses, manufacturing, schools, health care facilities and churches, while residential projects include single-family and multifamily housing. — Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle, "Houston area construction starts drop sharply in July," 29 Aug. 2019 The expansion of America's health care system has been one of the major issues differentiating candidates on the campaign trail. — Sara Cook, CBS News, "Top labor leader says 2020 Democrats must consider union-brokered health insurance plans," 29 Aug. 2019 When the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991, the health care system, like much of everything else, crumbled. — Maria Danilova, Harper's magazine, "Alternative Medicine," 28 Aug. 2019 At least one witness cannot be a relative, entitled to any portion of the person’s estate, the owner of the health care facility where the patient is getting treatment or a worker there, or be the patient’s doctor. — Mike Catalini, BostonGlobe.com, "New Jersey court ruling lets assisted suicide go ahead," 27 Aug. 2019 Sanders, meanwhile, sees a for-profit health care system as fundamentally broken. — Tara Golshan, Vox, "The divide between Harris and Sanders on health care is deepening.," 20 Aug. 2019 Home health care is not inexpensive, but a few days of help each week may save money compared with the cost of a residential care facility. — Mary Jacobs, Dallas News, "The cost conundrum: Once you find the right elder care, do the research to pay for it," 20 Aug. 2019 McGuire is pushing legislation that would make advanced notifications mandatory to police, fire and sheriff departments, health care facilities and telecommunication providers if their facilities will be impacted by an outage. — Los Angeles Times, "Power shutoffs could prevent wildfires, but at what cost to the elderly and disabled?," 18 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'health care.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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