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health-care

health-care is the alternative spelling of health care.

Meaning of health care

Noun

health care (uncountable)

  1. The prevention, treatment, and management of illness or the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions.
    • I think free health care should also cover nearsightedness.

Questions about health-care

What is health-care the alternative spelling of?
Health-care is the alternative spelling of health care.

Words near health-care in the dictionary

  1. health visitors
  2. health warning
  3. health warnings
  4. health worker
  5. health workers
  6. health-care
  7. health-conscious
  8. healthbar
  9. healthbars
  10. healthbush
  11. healthbushes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: health-care (page history and authors); health care (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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