coverage

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Etymology

cover +‎ -age

Noun

Wikipedia coverage (countable and uncountable; plural coverages)

1. An amount by which something or someone is covered.

   Don't go to lunch if we don't have enough coverage for the help-desk phones.

   Before laying sod on that clay, the ground needs two inches of coverage with topsoil.

   The enemy fire is increasing – can we get some immediate coverage from those bunkers?

   There are overlapping coverages on your insurance policies.

2. The amount of space or time given to an event in newspapers or on television

Translations

amount by which covered

• Arabic: تغطية (ar) f
• Armenian: (telecommunications) ծածկույթ (hy) (çaçkuyt’)
• Bulgarian: обсег (bg) (obseg) m, обхват (bg) (obhvat) m
• Czech: pokrytí (cs) n
• Dutch: dekking (nl) f

• French: couverture (fr) f, reportage (fr) m
• Korean: 덮는 범위, 보도 (ko)
• Russian: охват (ru) (oxvát) m, покрытие (ru) (pokrýtije) n зона действия (zóna déjstvija) f
• Spanish: cobertura (es) f