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say it: HELTH-ker
healthcare is a noun meaning "the preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by the health profession". It carries one recorded sense.
the preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by the health profession
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for healthcare come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.