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care meaning

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Synonyms of "care""care" in a sentence

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  • Verb: care  kehr
    1. Feel concern or interest
      "I really care about my work"; "I don't care" 
    2. Provide care for
      "The nurse was caring for the wounded"
      - give care 
    3. Prefer or wish to do something
      "Do you care to try this dish?"
      - wish, like 
    4. Be in charge of, act on, or dispose of
      - manage, deal, handle 
    5. Be concerned with
      - worry
    Noun: care  kehr
    1. The work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
      "no medical care was required"
      - attention, aid, tending 
    2. Judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger
      "he handled the vase with care"
      - caution, precaution, forethought 
    3. An anxious feeling
      "care had aged him"
      - concern, fear 
    4. A cause for feeling concern
      "his major care was the illness of his wife" 
    5. Attention and management implying responsibility for safety
      "he is in the care of a bodyguard"
      - charge, tutelage, guardianship 
    6. Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
      "he wrote the manual on car care"
      - maintenance, upkeep

    Derived forms: cares, caring, cared

    See also: care for, caring

    Type of: aid, anxiety, assist, command, compassionate, condole with, control, desire, feel for, fix, fixing, fixture, help, judiciousness, mend, mending, mind, pity, plight, predicament, protection, quandary, repair, reparation, sympathize with, want, work

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  • [Business]
    AmE / noun [U]

    CUSTOMER CARE, DAY CARE, HEALTH CARE, PERSONAL CARE

    the process of caring for sb and providing what they need, for example for their health or protection:

    a contract to provide employee care services

    IDIOMS

    care and maintenance (abbr c & m)

    (Manufacturing )

    a situation in which a building, mine, machine, etc. that is no longer in use, is kept in good condition so that it can be used again in the future:

    The mine was closed and placed under care and maintenance.

    The plant will be kept on a care and maintenance basis for 30 years.

    care of sb (AmE also in care of sb) (abbr c/o)

    used when writing to sb at another person's address:

    Write to him care of his lawyer.


  • [Defence]
    Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CAREUSA)

  • [Medicine]
    n : responsibility for or attention to health, well-being, and safety —see ACUTE CARE, HEALTH CARE, INTENSIVE CARE, PRIMARY CARE, TERTIARY CAREcare vi cared; car·ing

Examples

  • Since i am not crazy, i do not care.
  • Would you care to come for a walk with me?
  • I do not care a sod for what people think.
  • Installations you might care to visit?
  • Take care not to spill a drop of the medicine.
  • Each one should take care of his strength.
  • I should not care to be ranked above them.
  • I might as well be dead for all he cares.
  • He was caring only that the sun was high.
  • I am too tired to care about clothes.
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