healthhealth /helθ/ noun [uncountableU]1the business of providing medical services to keep people healthySYN HEALTHCAREIncreased resources had been made available for health, housing, and education.
Rentokil specialises in industrial products in the field of public health.
Health inspectors came to check the factory’s canteen.
→ environmental health2used to talk about how successful an organization, system, or economy isThis is a serious threat to the health of Japan’s banking system.
The balance sheet provides a lot of information on the financial health of the company.
3a clean bill of health if a system or an organization gets a clean bill of health, it is said to be in a good financial position after a detailed examination of it has been madeA meeting of EU finance ministers gave the European exchange-rate mechanism a clean bill of health.
4give something a clean bill of health to make an official statement that a product is not harmful or dangerousLawyers said the company had something to hide about the drug’s development, but the FDA gave Prozac a clean bill of health.