day caren.
/ˈdeɪ kɛː/, U.S. /ˈdeɪ ˌkɛr/ΚΠ
1644 A. Burgess Magistrates Comm. 15 It ought to be your day-care and your night-care, and your morning-care.
1685 J. Jackson et al. Annot. Holy Bible II. (Heb. xiii. 17) sig. 5G4v/2 How great, by Christ's Law, are the right Watchings, and Day-Cares and Tears, Studies, Exhortations, Reproofs, Comfortings, their Preachings, and Prayers with Tears, and strong Cries to God for their Souls?
1789 Town & Country Mag. Sept. 427/1 When day-cares are lost In twilight glooms, let me attentive view The glow-worm's paly lamp.
1867 S. Lanier Tiger-lilies ii. xiii. 228 Ah, the music has taken all the day-cares and thrown them into its terrible alembic,..till they are crystallized into one care, which is a most sweet and rare desirable sorrow.
2. Originally U.S. Now frequently as one word.
a. Daytime supervision and care of those who cannot be fully independent, such as young children, the infirm, or the vulnerable.The usual term in North America for the provision of care for children who are below school age.
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1898 N.Y. Charities Directory (ed. 8) 74 Winifred Day Nursery of the East Side House Settlement... For the day care of children under eight, while their mothers are at work.
1922 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 349/1 Institutions for the day care of children.
1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 173/2 Most relatives willingly accept the day care as an alternative to in-patient care.
1997 C. Shields Larry's Party (1998) x. 194 ‘I don't believe in putting babies in daycare,’ Dorrie said after Ryan was born, but a few months later she did just that.
2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 1 Feb. i. 4/2 The 43-bed Rosepark home..also provides day care and care for terminally ill and mentally ill people.
b. As a count noun: a centre for the daytime supervision and care of young children; a day nursery or crèche.
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society > education > upbringing > [noun] > nursery
nurseryc1330
farm1842
crèche1846
day nursery1850
day care1975
1975 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 11 Aug. 8/2 My options are limited since few daycares are certified for kindergarten programs.
1989 Jrnl. Business Ethics 8 184/1 Children ensure contacts with other parents in libraries, pools, community centres, schools, and daycares.
1998 L. A. Grenoble & L. J. Whaley Endangered Langs. (1999) ii. 50 This revitalization program has led to a reintroduction of Maori into the schools and daycares.
2006 Today's Parent (Canada) Oct. 63/1 Competition is the reason so many parents find that their children are more easily potty trained in a daycare than they are at home.
Compounds
General attributive, as day care centre, day care facility, day care service, etc.
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1941 Social Service Rev. 15 765 Members of the conference reported and discussed..the co-ordination and development of community day-care programs and services.
1954 Walden Story (Walden School, N.Y.) iv. 22 When during the war, the urgent need for day care centers for working mothers became apparent, it was to the private schools that public officials turned.
1964 Economist 4 Jan. 24/2 Adequately staffed day-care centres for children.
1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 180/2 It is also possible to provide an extended day-care service which can be adapted to the individual needs of the patient and the relatives.
1998 Community Care 5 Feb. 3/1 The social services directorate faces cuts of £1.8 million which could lead to..further restrictions on family support and day care provision.
2012 Dwell Apr. 92/2 Unfortunately, nation-wide economic defunding of daycare facilities meant that the building was never realized.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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