care meaning
Meaning
Mobile
- Verb: care kehr
- Feel concern or interest
"I really care about my work"; "I don't care" - Provide care for
"The nurse was caring for the wounded"
- give care - Prefer or wish to do something
"Do you care to try this dish?"
- wish, like - Be in charge of, act on, or dispose of
- manage, deal, handle - Be concerned with
- worry
- The work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
"no medical care was required"
- attention, aid, tending - Judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger
"he handled the vase with care"
- caution, precaution, forethought - An anxious feeling
"care had aged him"
- concern, fear - A cause for feeling concern
"his major care was the illness of his wife" - Attention and management implying responsibility for safety
"he is in the care of a bodyguard"
- charge, tutelage, guardianship - Activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
"he wrote the manual on car care"
- maintenance, upkeep
Derived forms: cares, caring, cared
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
Encyclopedia: Care
- Feel concern or interest
[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 CARE — care vicared; 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.
Other Languages
- "care" meaning in Chinese: CARE =Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere 美国援外合作组织。...
- "care" meaning in Japanese: 1care n. 心配, 悩み事, 不安; 世話; 介護; 注意, 気配り, 配慮; 関心事. 【動詞+】 ◆ass...
- "care" meaning in Russian: 1) забота, попечение Ex: care of public health общественно...
- "care" meaning in French: n. souci, inquiétude; soin; précaution, attention; assis...