coverage
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (3)
- the total amount and type of insurance carriedSynonyms: insurance coverageType of sum, sum of money
- the extent to which something is covered“the dictionary's coverage of standard English is excellent”Type of extent
- the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television“they accused the paper of biased coverage of race relations”Synonyms: reportingreportageType of news
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Translations
Noun amount by which something or someone is covered
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
1. the range of items covered. Coverage may be small (narrow coverage}, or large (broad coverage or wide coverage).
2. The aggregate of risks covered by the terms of a contract of insurance.
3. the state of being insured; insurance.
4. the areas reached by a radio transmission signal, or group of people reached by a communications medium, such as television or a newspaper.
5. the range of topics treated in a discourse or document, or the depth to which a subject is discussed; as, a news program may have extensive coverage of an event. “gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Democratic convention.”
6. the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio of television; as, they accused the paper of biased coverage of race relations. Syn. — reporting, reportage.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: 1913 supplement, GCIDE editors, WordNet 1.5