COVERAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coverage mean? 

• COVERAGE (noun)
  The noun COVERAGE has 3 senses:

1. the total amount and type of insurance carried

2. the extent to which something is covered

3. the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television

  Familiarity information: COVERAGE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COVERAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The total amount and type of insurance carried

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

coverage; insurance coverage

Hypernyms ("coverage" is a kind of...):

amount; amount of money; sum; sum of money (a quantity of money)

Derivation:

cover (protect by insurance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The extent to which something is covered

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

the dictionary's coverage of standard English is excellent

Hypernyms ("coverage" is a kind of...):

extent (the distance or area or volume over which something extends)

Derivation:

cover (act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

coverage; reportage; reporting

Context example:

they accused the paper of biased coverage of race relations

Hypernyms ("coverage" is a kind of...):

news (information reported in a newspaper or news magazine)

Derivation:

cover (be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism)

 Context examples 

The Affordable Care Act expands health insurance coverage for many people in the U.S.

(Health Insurance, NIH)

But test results might help a person make life decisions, such as family planning or insurance coverage.

(Genetic Testing, NIH: National Human Genome Research Institute)

Further studies are required to estimate cloud coverage and the percentage of atmospheric water present.

(Hubble Finds Water Vapor on Habitable-Zone Exoplanet for 1st Time, NASA)

This agent is used mainly for gram-negative infections, and has limited gram-positive coverage.

(Carbenicillin Indanyl Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)

Public Law 104-91, enacted in 1996, is designed to protect health insurance coverage for workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs.

(Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, NCI Thesaurus)

The effect of insurance coverage on medical care and practices.

(Insurance and Payment Issues, NCI Thesaurus)

Whether or not you should sign up depends on how good your current coverage is.

(Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)

NASA interrupted its live coverage of an International Space Station spacewalk to mourn Leonov's passing.

(Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov dies at age 85, Wikinews)

A group of penicillins with extended gram-negative bacterial coverage, including Ticarcillin, Piperacillin, Carbenicillin, Timentin and Mezlocillin.

(Extended Spectrum Penicillin Antibiotic, NCI Thesaurus)

The cerrado has lost 88 million hectares—46% of its native coverage.

(Species native to Brazil savanna likely to face extinction, Agência Brasil)