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noun

Coverage n.

The range of items covered. Coverage may be small (narrow coverage}, or large (broad coverage or wide coverage).

The aggregate of risks covered by the terms of a contract of insurance.

The state of being insured; insurance.

The areas reached by a radio transmission signal, or group of people reached by a communications medium, such as television or a newspaper.

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."

The news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio of television; as, they accused the paper of biased coverage of race relations.

Synonyms: reporting, reportage.

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Etymology of 'Coverage'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Coverage" Quotes from Famous Books

... the one pirate ship, which has been located hovering in an unknown manner over Ensfield. We are rushing camera crews to the spot and will try to give on-the-spot as-it-happens coverage of the landing of pirates on Walden, their looting of the city of Ensfield, and the traffic jams inevitable in the departure of the citizens before the pirate ship touches ground. For background information on this the most exciting event in planetary history, ...

— The Pirates of Ersatz • Murray Leinster

... slice of the old watermelon to live in, we've got only about a sixth of one—shaped about like a piece of restaurant pie. One thing I can do, though. I'll turn on the communicator receiver and put it on full coverage—maybe ...

— Spacehounds of IPC • Edward Elmer Smith

Words linked to "Coverage" : extent, amount, news, sum, sum of money, reporting, insurance coverage, cover