coverage

[ kuhv-er-ij, kuhv-rij ]

noun

1. Insurance. protection provided against risks or a risk, often as specified:

   Does the coverage include flood damage?

2. Journalism. the reporting and subsequent publishing or broadcasting of news:

   The World Series receives international coverage.

3. the extent to which something is covered.
4. the area, groups, or number of persons served or reached by a newspaper, radio or television station, advertising campaign, business, etc.; market.
5. Radio and Television. the area within the broadcasting range of a station or network, usually calculated by the number of owners of radio or television receivers.
6. Finance. the value of funds held to back up or meet liabilities.
7. Photography. covering power.

coverage

/ ˈkʌvərɪdʒ /

noun

1. the amount or extent to which something is covered
2. journalism the amount and quality of reporting or analysis given to a particular subject or event
3. the extent of the protection provided by insurance
4. finance
   1. the value of liquid assets reserved to meet liabilities
   2. the ratio of liquid assets to specific liabilities
   3. the ratio of total net profit to distributed profit in a company
5. the section of the public reached by a medium of communication

Word History and Origins

Origin of coverage¹

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15; cover + -age

Example Sentences

This stood him in good stead when he moved to UTV to front its political coverage at a crucial stage in the peace process in the mid-1990s.

From BBC

This makes it possible to use a satellite connection instead of terrestrial GSM networks, which guarantees coverage even in remote wilderness regions completely independent of local infrastructure.

From Science Daily

That wouldn’t make much of a dent in the annual cost of Medicaid’s coverage of its 72 million beneficiaries, which came to about $853 billion last year.

From Los Angeles Times

A majority of farming operations in Ventura County are smaller growers that might not have crop insurance or are underinsured because fire coverage is not available for all farms.

From Los Angeles Times

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services oversee the country’s largest healthcare programs, providing coverage to more than 150 million Americans.

From BBC

Related Words

• analysis
• insurance
• report