n. 1. the range of items covered. Coverage may be small (narrow coverage }, or large (broad coverage or wide coverage). [ PJC ] 2. The aggregate of risks covered by the terms of a contract of insurance. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] 3. the state of being insured; insurance. [ PJC ] 4. the areas reached by a radio transmission signal, or group of people reached by a communications medium, such as television or a newspaper. [ PJC ] 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.” [ PJC ] 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. [ WordNet 1.5 ] | 