how to pronounce medicare

/ˈmɛdəˌkɛɹ/

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medicare is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of medicare in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… yes the medicare program was a really …”

meanings of medicare

name:

Alternative spelling of medicare.
The system of government subsidies for health care for the elderly and disabled.
The publicly funded universal health care system, operated by the government authority Medicare Australia.

noun:

The Canadian national health care system.

medicare frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word medicare occurs in english on average 4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.