medicare

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See also: Medicare and medicaré

English

Noun

medicare (uncountable)

  1. (Canada) The Canadian public health insurance system.
    • 2009 January 20, Les Whittington, “Ignatieff decries Harper's 'plan'”, in Toronto Star:
      He said, for him, the Liberals defined Canada by championing medicare and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and by addressing such issues as same-sex marriage.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin medicāre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /me.diˈka.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: me‧di‧cà‧re

Verb

medicàre (first-person singular present mèdico, first-person singular past historic medicài, past participle medicàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to dress (a wound)
  2. to treat (an injured patient)
  3. (agriculture) to treat (the soil) with disinfectants or preservatives
  4. (winemaking) to chemically treat (wine) (to improve its quality and reduce impurities)
  5. (figurative) to soothe, to heal (psychic wounds, etc.)
  6. (rare) to correct (a defect)
  7. (archaic) to heal (a patient)

Conjugation

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Latin

Verb

medicāre

  1. inflection of medicō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative/indicative

Spanish

Verb

medicare

  1. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of medicar