health-care

health·care

[helth-kair]
noun Also, health care.
1.
the field concerned with the maintenance or restoration of the health of the body or mind.
2.
any of the procedures or methods employed in this field.
adjective Also, health-care.
3.
of, pertaining to, or involved in healthcare: healthcare workers; a healthcare center.

Origin:
health + care

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healthcare

noun
the preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by the health profession 
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Health-care is always a great word to know.
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a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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