Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The extent or degree to which something is observed, analyzed, and reported: complete news coverage of the election.
- n. Inclusion in an insurance policy or protective plan.
- n. The extent of protection afforded by an insurance policy.
- n. The amount of funds reserved to meet liabilities.
- n. The percentage of persons reached by a medium of communication, such as television or a newspaper.
Wiktionary
- n. An amount by which something or someone is covered.
- n. The amount of space or time given to an event in newspapers or on television
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. the range of items covered.
Coverage may be small (narrow coverage}, or large (broad coverage or wide coverage). - n. The aggregate of risks covered by the terms of a contract of insurance.
- n. the state of being insured; insurance.
- n. the areas reached by a radio transmission signal, or group of people reached by a communications medium, such as television or a newspaper.
- n. the range of topics treated in a discourse or document, or the depth to which a subject is discussed.
- n. the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio of television.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the extent to which something is covered
- n. the total amount and type of insurance carried
- n. the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television
Etymologies
- cover + -age (Wiktionary)
Examples
“When gathering coverage, the figleaf report can be downloaded from the / _coverage url.”
“This involves structuring a policy to include significant amounts of term-life coverage and "paid-up additions," a low-commission form of permanent-life coverage that supplants the term coverage over time.”
“April 9th, 2010 9: 07 pm ET perhaps this non stop weekend of Palin coverage is a GOOD thing because the more she opens her mouth the more foolish she looks ... that is except in the eyes of her fans which she could say no wrong.”
“Under the House bill, this hole in coverage is cut by $500 immediately, and seniors get a 50 percent discount for some drugs.”
“All this Palin coverage is causing a state of ennui in many of your readers.”
“The most popular slant in coverage is that technology makes life more productive.”
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“Universal coverage is an important goal and something we should strive for, but it will not create true parity in coverage or health outcomes.”
“Because I usually read a number of different papers, I would like to extend the idea, so that as well as, or instead, of it being specific to one news service, I could draw in coverage from a number of news sources (of my choice), so that when I looked at any particular checked topic/tag I could see a broader aggregated overview, even if it was only in headline or precis form links.”
“Most of the term coverage portions of life insurance policies are very small compared to actual term policies.”
“I think, on the average, for a $100 premium per month of a life, you could get the term coverage part for only between $15 to $20 bucks.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘coverage’.
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SCIE - natural language processing
disambiguation, smoothing, log-linear model, ambiguity, EM algorithm, Markov model, anaphora, estimation, discourse level, parsing, semantic level, machine learning and 332 more...
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POL - presidential debates
Some of the catchwords of several presidential debates (Obama-Romney 2012 Denver debate's transcript fully included)
preexist, crosstalk, figure skate, preexisting, spending cut, preconceive, zinger, excruciate, ask over, miniaturize, food stamp, Medicare and 150 more...
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bbc uk china vocab.
conservationists, estimate, threats, infertility, eating away at, endangered, furry, panel, in trouble, gongs, triumphed, caps and 1007 more...
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Society
social work, coverage, affiliate, social security, ambulance, clinic, health, insurance, emergency, mail, letter, envelope and 101 more...
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SPOR - Olympic glossary
hurdle, tempo, consortium, caption, mutual understanding, jury, radio, javelin, extra time, boxing, Lander, European and 521 more...
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SCIE - statistics
Abbe-Helmert crit..., a priori probability, alphabet, total correlation, three-dimensional..., theoretical frequ..., time reversal test, three-series theorem, theoretical variable, tetrachoric corre..., absolutely unbias..., absolute error and 4171 more...
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TECH - web application frameworks
limit, pack, automatic, HTTP, database, poi, event, coverage, core, hibernate, function, product and 310 more...
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The -ages of Man(-age)
Trivet also has this list, which you should go see. And then I found this list, and this list...
manage, salvage, selvadge, savage, voyage, umbrage, entourage, homage, carriage, marriage, language, potage and 123 more...
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Football
pigskin, touchdown, field goal, yardage, quarterback, halfback, tailback, blitz, offense, defense, cornerback, linebacker and 39 more...
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Insurance
Words associated with insurance cover - Created with the help of employees from Aegon insurance
compensate, underwrite, indemnify, boilerplate, small print, agreement, binding, promise, coinsurance, assurance, actuary, peril and 15 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Favorite Words of AWP13
We asked attendees who visited the Wordnik booth what their favorite words were, and these are what they told us. (AWP is an annual conference for writers and those in the writing world.)
cling, declivity, susurrus, caramel, cataract, please, fester, reverie, kerplunk!, defenestration, colonel, ocean and 174 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Z-kai
subject to, adopt, attentive, coverage, expectation, lower, demanding, count, project, capability, projection, conviction and 45 more...
Tweets
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