care1 nouncare2 verb
carecare1 /keə $ ker/ ●●● S1 W1 noun 
WORD ORIGINcare1
Origin:
Old English caruEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Care of the environment has become a priority in government thinking.
- All employees have been trained in the care of young children.
- hair-care products
- I'd advise you to follow a new skin care routine.
- Movies set you free from your cares for a while.
- She has become a leading expert on the care and maintenance of Renaissance paintings.
- skin care lotions
- The note on the box read, "Fragile - handle with care."
- These photocopiers require a little extra care to keep them running right.
- Your father will need constant medical care.
- A comprehensive review of the patient can be achieved through the use of the care plan.
- Finally, such medical care will generally involve invasive drug therapy.
- He had spent two hours taking care of his tires in the rain.
- I planned this thing with care.
- It recommends that resources for the developments in primary and community care to pump-prime and provide transitional support be secured urgently.
- Mud-Pony-Boy healed the horse with loving care and herbal compresses for the injured foot.
- Take care to fit the diodes and electrolytic capacitors the correct way round.
- The other is preventive health care for all, including prenatal care.
THESAURUScarefulness
if you do something with care, you are careful to avoid damage, mistakes etc: · She put the needle in with great care.· Everyone should take care in the sun.
care to avoid danger or risks, or care about trusting information that might not be true: · Her evidence should be treated with caution.· There was a certain lack of caution among investors.
a sensible and careful attitude that makes you avoid unnecessary risks – a rather formal use: · Banks should show more prudence in lending money.
careful attention to what is happening, so that you will notice any danger or illegal activity: · Governments from across the world have called for greater vigilance against Internet-based crime.· There is a need for constant vigilance to protect vulnerable people.
careful attention and consideration shown to something, to avoid danger or risks – used especially when someone fails to do this: · The court heard that the company had shown no regard for the safety of its employees.· These men are cold-blooded killers and have little regard for human life.
care not to say anything that might offend or upset someone: · He handled the matter with a great deal of tact.
care to deal with situations in a way that does not embarrass, upset or offend people, especially by not telling any of their secrets: · Any confidential information was treated with discretion.
Longman Language Activatorcareful to avoid risks or danger someone who is careful tries to avoid danger, risks, or accidents: · You'll be OK with Jane - she's a very careful driver.· Paints today are getting safer as companies remove harmful chemicals, but you still need to be careful.careful (that): · We had to be careful that we didn't tip the raft over.
someone who is cautious does not like taking risks and is always very careful to avoid them: · If we're too cautious, we might lose a good business opportunity.· Phil's a very cautious driver - it'll take at least an hour to get there.cautious about: · I've always been cautious about giving people my phone number.
if you do something with care or with caution , you do it carefully in order to avoid accidents: · Some roads may be icy and motorists are advised to drive with caution.handle something with care: · These antiques are fragile and must be handled with care.
someone who is wary does not easily trust people and thinks very carefully before getting involved in any situation that might be dangerous or cause problems: wary of: · She had become extremely wary of relationships as a result of her childhood experiences.· Wary of becoming entangled in her friend's family quarrels, Eileen made an excuse and left.wary about: · The problems with selling the house had made her much more wary about financial matters.keep a wary eye on somebody/something (=watch something or someone carefully): · One of the guards was fiddling with his radio, all the time keeping a wary eye on the five prisoners.
formal always paying attention to what is happening, so that you notice any danger or illegal activity: · Be vigilant on public transport and at tourist sites, as pickpockets operate in these areas.vigilant about: · We have to be vigilant about protecting our right to privacy.remain vigilant: · The terrorist threat is still real, and the public should remain vigilant.ever vigilant (=always vigilant): · We must be ever vigilant. Don't think that Fascism can never rise again. It can.
to try to avoid risks or danger to do something in a sensible way, in order to avoid risks: · Of course you don't have to spend all your time worrying about possible health hazards, but you still need to take care.take care how/when etc: · Take care how you cross the road. Most drivers ignore the traffic lights and just drive through. take care with: · I always take great care with diets, so I don't lose too much weight too quickly.
to make preparations before you do something, in order to avoid the risk of something unpleasant happening: · Tourists should take precautions as they would in any large city, and should avoid traveling alone at night. take precautions against: · The villagers had already taken precautions against random raids by the militia.take the precaution of doing something: · Bennet had taken the precaution of transferring his house into his wife's name before his company collapsed.
to pay careful attention to what is happening and not easily trust people, in order to avoid getting into danger, being tricked etc: · Drivers have to be on their guard, as faults or signal failures can occur at any time.be on your guard against: · " We would like to warn everybody to be on their guard against unsolicited 'tradesmen'," he said.
to watch and listen very carefully when you are in a situation that might be dangerous, or in which people might try to cheat you: · It was only because John kept his wits about him that the boys managed to get home safely.· Buying a second-hand car can be very tricky. You really have to have your wits about you.
to choose a careful way of doing something instead of a way that could have more risks or danger: · My friends keep advising me to invest my money in stocks and shares but I've decided to play safe and leave it in the bank.· The Film Club could have played safe by starting the season with one of the ever-popular Hitchcock movies, but instead they chose to show an avant-garde documentary.
to organize something in a very careful way, because you want to avoid any possible risks: · This time we're taking no chances. Everything will be planned down to the last detail.· Weather forecasters have warned about the possibility of severe storms, and city officials are taking no chances.
to try to do something correctly and not make mistakes to do a piece of work carefully because you want it to be right, and you do not want to make mistakes: · Look at all these typing errors! Can't you take more care?take care with: · Sally doesn't take nearly enough care with her accounts.take care to do something: · Take care to label all the disks with the correct file names.
to be careful that a particular thing is done in the right way: · You need to pay more attention to your grammar if you want to get a better grade.· Trainees are taught to pay attention to details and to strive for perfection.
to make a special effort to do something carefully and well: · Take pains to present a smart, efficient appearance, and to show that you are keen to progress in the company.· He had taken great pains to make the setting attractive: green candles stood waiting to be lit and in the centre was a bowl of white miniature roses.
careful to do things correctly someone who is careful tries not to make mistakes, and tries to do everything correctly: · She's a careful, hard-working student.careful with: · Try to be more careful with your punctuation.careful (not) to do something: · They were careful not to touch anything until the police arrived.· Fry the garlic, being careful not to let it burn.
formal if you do something with care you do it carefully in order to make sure that you do not make any mistakes: · She has to work slowly and with great care in order to get the picture just right.· Her room is beautifully furnished, with a great deal of care and attention to detail.· Aunt Beryl's presents were well-received, and had obviously been chosen with a lot of care.
someone who is conscientious has a serious attitude to their work or their duties and tries hard to do everything they have been asked to do in the way that it should be done: · She was a very conscientious student and attended all her lectures.· His previous employer describes him as honest, hard-working and conscientious.conscientious about: · I wish everyone was as conscientious as you are about getting to work on time.
someone who is thorough is careful that all the work they do is complete and correct: · Our mechanics will check everything - they're very thorough.
someone who is meticulous pays a lot of attention to every detail in order to make sure that everything is done correctly: · This beautiful piece of jewellery is the work of a meticulous craftsman.· My mother was extremely meticulous and always made sure that every room in the house was spotlessly clean.meticulous about: · Our accountant is very meticulous about his work. I can't imagine him ever making a mistake.
someone who is methodical always does their work in a carefully planned way and is careful to check everything they do: · Poirot, always deliberate and methodical, made a list of all the possible suspects.· Barnes is a conscientious and methodical journalist who would have checked all of the facts before writing the story.
to do things that need doing to decide what needs to be done and make sure that it is done: · Who is dealing with the accommodation arrangements for the conference?· I spend most of my working day dealing with customer inquiries.· I'm sorry I'm late. I had an urgent call to deal with.
to deal with all the practical details of something that needs to be done or organized: · I'll join you later - there are a few things I need to see to at the office first.· My brother attended to all the funeral arrangements.· You'd better get someone to see to that leaking pipe.see to it that: · I'll see to it that everything is ready on the day.
to make sure that arrangements are made or work is completed, especially when you do this for someone else so that they do not need to worry about it: · My secretary will take care of the details.· Shall I take care of your mail for you while you are away?it/everything is taken care of (=someone has dealt with it for you): · Don't worry about your passport and visa - it's all taken care of.
spoken say this to tell someone that you will be responsible for making arrangements or for doing something that needs doing: · "We need to make sure the others know where we'll be meeting." "Leave it to me. I'll phone them when I get home."
if an organization such as a government department processes a letter, an official document, or formal process etc, it deals with it: · You should allow two weeks for your visa application to be processed.· Computers have given banks the power to process millions of transactions a day.
British /follow up on American to take further action in order to deal with a complaint, request, letter etc: · I got your e-mail but I'm afraid I forgot to follow it up.· Our rule is that the complaints department must follow up a letter within two days.· Following up on recommendations made last year, the president called for the more efficient use of resources.
to look after something to keep something in good condition and make sure that it does not get broken, damaged, or stolen: · You can have a new bike for Christmas if you promise to look after it.· You could see someone had been looking after the garden, even though the house had been empty for years.· The miniature railway is looked after by local volunteers.look after something for somebody: · You don't mind looking after the place for me while I'm away, do you?
especially spoken to look after something that belongs to someone else for a short time, by watching it to make sure that it does not get stolen or damaged: · Tom went into the library while I kept an eye on the bikes.· Does a neighbor keep an eye on your house while you are away?· Can you keep an eye on my bags while I go to the toilet?
to make sure that a car, machine, place, or building is in good condition by checking it and repairing it when necessary: · Residents work in the downstairs shop, and also help to maintain the building. · His role is to maintain the society's fleet of vans, ready to respond in any emergency.· An attempt was being made to maintain the grounds, but weeds were starting to grow in the driveway.
the job of maintaining a car, building, place, or machine: · A car is quite a big expense, especially when you consider maintenance.· Because there had been no maintenance, the college buildings were in a poor state.· the maintenance of public roadsroutine maintenance (=simple maintenance that must be done regularly): · Most gas appliances require routine maintenance once a year to ensure safety.maintenance costs (=the amount of money it costs to maintain something): · The city is paying $30,000 in annual maintenance costs.
the work or process of looking after something in order to keep it in good condition: care of: · She has become a leading expert on the care and maintenance of Renaissance paintings.· Care of the environment has become a priority in government thinking.· These photocopiers require a little extra care to keep them running right.hair-care/skin-care etc: · hair-care products· I'd advise you to follow a new skin care routine.
the continuous process and cost involved in keeping something in good condition, especially a building or garden: the upkeep of something: · The trustees are responsible for the upkeep of the bridge. · The Council's contribution towards the upkeep of the church is very much appreciated.· You get more for your money if you buy an old house, but upkeep costs will be higher
to look after a child who is not your own for a long time to legally and permanently take someone else's child into your family and treat them as one of your own children: · Chinese babies are the favorite choice of Americans adopting children from abroad.· She had hoped to get pregnant, but when she failed, she and her husband decided to adopt.· He discovered that his guardian, Aunt Mimi, had not legally adopted him.· Teenagers who discover they were adopted often search for their biological parents when they are old enough.
to take another person's child into your own family and look after them for a period of several weeks, months, or years, but without becoming their legal parent: · Fostering a teenager is obviously different from fostering a small child.· During my mother's long illness I was fostered by a middle-aged couple on the other side of town.
a person who has been legally appointed to look after a child whose parents are away or dead, or to look after someone who is too ill to be responsible for themselves: · The court must obtain the consent of the child's parent or guardian.· Children under 17 will only be admitted in the company of a parent or adult guardian.· Could you contact Mrs Smith's guardians and tell them she's been admitted to hospital?legal guardian: · When Sara was 7, Aunt Maggie became her legal guardian.
British a child who is in care does not live with his or her parents but is looked after in a special home paid for by the local council, for example because their own parents are dead or could not look after them properly: · Many youngsters who've been brought up in care are often incapable of looking after themselves.· The number of children in care in Oxfordshire is falling.
to look after someone especially British to spend time with a child or with someone who is old or sick, and make sure they are safe and have the things they need: · Can you look after the kids for me this afternoon?· I've told you, I can't come. There's no one to look after Frieda.· Jonathon has no idea what it means to take care of a baby all day long. · We specialize in helping caregivers who take care of relatives in their own homes.
to look after someone who is very ill or very old by doing everything for them: · Elsie had to leave her job to care for her sick father.· St Helen's Hospice, which cares for the terminally ill, is holding a special fund-raising week.· It is one of the only charities to care for Aids patients and ex-prisoners.
British to look after children for a short time while their parents are out doing something else: · The woman who minds Pip and Emma collects them from school and gives them an evening meal.· Mothers who work part-time are able to mind other people's children when they are not working.
also sit American to look after children in the evening while their parents go out somewhere, especially when they pay you a small amount of money for doing this: · I'll ask Jane to babysit on Wednesday night.· Ask Alex and Joan next time you're babysitting.babysit for: · He used to babysit for Mary when she worked nights.· Jenny sat for us last Friday evening when we went to the movies.
to stay with a child and watch them to see that they are safe, especially for a short time: · Benjy, I want you to stay in the yard where I can keep an eye on you.· Would you mind keeping an eye on Stacey while I go for a cigarette?keep a close/careful/watchful eye on somebody: · He warned parents to continue to keep a close eye on their children.
to look after someone who is ill and to make them well again or to make them comfortable: · Tony nursed his wife through her long illness without ever complaining.· Irina had wanted to nurse him, but the doctors had sent her away.nurse somebody back to health (=look after a sick person until they are well again): · The monks tended his wounds and nursed him back to health.
British /caregiver American someone who looks after another person who is too young or ill to look after himself or herself - used especially on official forms, in official letters, in newspapers etc: · Hospital staff can provide additional home support for carers.· We have a high number of volunteer carers at the day centre.· Like many caregivers, Marian gave up her job to provide 24-hour care for an elderly relative.
something that makes you feel worried · It's important that children can discuss their worries with their parents.· His remarks reflect a widespread worry that Canada may be going the same way as the US.worry about/over · Worries about the tire company's performance sent its shares tumbling.· The launch was delayed because of worries over protestors.greatest/biggest/main etc worry · Roosevelt's chief worry at the time was that an attack on Britain would put the US at a strategic disadvantage.
a situation that makes you feel worried, especially a problem that affects a lot of people, but that may not affect you personally: · The hospital's main concern is that doctors are overworked.· The survey suggests that rising crime is the top of the average American's concerns. concern about/over: · My only concern about the match is that Price will be fit enough to take part.· The committee brushed aside concerns about racism and prejudice in local government.raise concerns (=cause concerns): · The incident has raised concerns that the government may retaliate.
all the things in a job or situation that make you feel worried and tired, especially when your work or life is very difficult: · Despite many stresses and strains, the team has held together, and I'm proud of that.stresses and strains of: · the stresses and strains of modern living· Do some gentle exercises to relieve the stresses and strains of your day.
informal if you have a hang-up about something, for example your appearance, or your relationships with other people, you feel worried and embarrassed about it, and this makes you feel less confident: · I want the children to understand sex and grow up without any hang-ups.have a hang-up about: · Sarah has a hang-up about her nose -- she thinks it's too big.· They're just ordinary people with all the usual hang-ups about love.
written problems or responsibilities in your life that make you worry: · She was not really ready for the cares and responsibilities of running a family.· 'Forget all your cares and worries', as the song goes.
not worried also unconcerned formal · Sam had stayed out late before, so we weren't particularly worried when he didn't return.· Brian didn't seem at all concerned when the car broke down.not worried/concerned about · He insists that he is not worried about the poor showing his party made in the recent local elections. · For once, Karen seemed unconcerned about the possibility of being late for class. not in the least bit worried etc (=not at all worried) · Even after losing her job, she doesn't seem in the least bit worried.
feeling relaxed again because you do not need to worry about something that you worried about before: · "Oh," she said, relieved. "I'm so glad you're back."seem/feel/look/appear relieved: · The hostages simply look relieved to be going home.relieved that: · I was relieved that John was there to help me explain.· The government will be relieved that a crisis has been averted.relieved at: · Sahlin appeared relieved at my news.relieved to know/hear/find/learn etc something: · I'm so relieved to see you!· Polly was relieved to learn that her mother's illness was not a serious one.· Andrew was relieved to discover that he was not himself under suspicion.
spoken if something is a weight off your mind you do not have to worry any more because something has happened to make you feel happier about it: be a great/big/enormous weight off somebody's mind: · No doubt the news will be a huge weight off his mind.take a weight off somebody's mind: · Now that Peter has passed all his exams, it's taken a great weight off my mind.
the pleasant feeling you have when you no longer have to worry about something: · A white envelope lay on the mat. Holmes felt considerable relief.a feeling/sense of relief: · Edwards commented that the convictions give him a feeling of relief that he hopes the victim shares.with relief: · To her own surprise, she began sobbing with relief.to somebody's relief (=making them feel relieved): · To Greg's relief, nobody asked to check his ticket.· The rains came this weekend, much to the relief of tomato growers in Florida. breathe/heave a sigh of relief (=show by your behaviour that you are no longer worried about something): · You could hear the students breathing a collective sigh of relief when the final bell rang.it is a relief to know/hear/see/find etc: · It was such a relief to see Liz looking healthy again.· Mary says it's a relief to have someone to talk to at last.come as a relief: · The decision, announced on Thursday, came as a huge relief to the factory's 300 workers.
to not be worried by a problem because you do not think it is important enough: · I tried my best, and I certainly won't be losing any sleep over the result.· It's not that serious. I wouldn't lose sleep over it if I were you.
if you have no qualms about something, you are not worried about it, especially because you are sure it is the right thing to do: have no qualms about: · One protestor said he would have no qualms about bombing the clinic.· He was a man who had no qualms about preaching one thing and practising another in his private life.
cheerful and not worried about anything, because you do not have any real problems or responsibilities in your life: · I felt carefree for the first time in my life.· They both laughed, feeling like two carefree schoolgirls.
if someone is without a care in the world , they are not worried about anything at all and are happy: · I was just sixteen, young, confident and without a care in the world.· He puffed away on his pipe as if he didn't have a care in the world.
to laugh and refuse to worry or be serious about a problem, when someone is trying to talk to you about it: laugh off something: · Venables laughed off suggestions that he will be asked to retire.· She took praise with delight, and laughed off any criticisms with good humour.laugh it off: · She was genuinely angry, but Luke just tried to laugh it off.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYtypes of care
regular antenatal care subsidized day care facilities Dental care was free in the 60s. a devil-may-care attitude to life Drivers are advised to take extra care. It is necessary to use extreme caution with chemicals. John always takes great care over his work. She left her son in the care of a friend. What that child needs is plenty of loving care. the loving care with which the house has been restored The injury required urgent medical attention. Sarah has a new boyfriend – not that I care (=I do not care). The man is in the hospital’s intensive care unit.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· People expect good standards of medical care.
· The government has put a lot more money into health care.
· £50.6m is to be spent on hospital care.
(=in the area where you live rather than in hospitals)· Most mentally ill people are now treated through community care.
(=in people’s own homes)· You can find home care through family service agencies.
(=care of someone who is ill)· The changes should lead to better patient care.
(=for people in hospital/not in hospital)· Outpatient care is generally less expensive than a stay in hospital.
· The important thing is the quality of the nursing care.
(=for ill or old people in a place where they stay)· They used the money to pay for residential care.
(=for people who are very seriously ill)· He needed intensive care for several weeks.
· Children with both parents working long hours need after-school care.
(=all day and all night)· He needs round-the-clock care.
· The home provides short-term care for elderly people.
verbs· The charity provides care and shelter for homeless people.
· She had an aging mother who required constant care.
· Every citizen has the right to receive health care.
care + NOUN British English (=someone whose job is looking after people)· She's a part-time care worker with mentally ill adults.
· How much money is spent on health care services?
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES regular antenatal care (=care for the sick, the old etc in their community rather than in hospital)· Several voluntary organizations are involved in providing community care.
(=serving and looking after customers)· Our aim is always to raise the level of customer service.
subsidized day care facilities Dental care was free in the 60s. a devil-may-care attitude to life Drivers are advised to take extra care. It is necessary to use extreme caution with chemicals. John always takes great care over his work. (=care from doctors, nurses etc)· Many Americans cannot afford even basic health care.
· What do older people think of hospital care?
She left her son in the care of a friend. What that child needs is plenty of loving care. the loving care with which the house has been restored The injury required urgent medical attention.· None of us care what happens to him.
Sarah has a new boyfriend – not that I care (=I do not care).· The West should be helping these countries to develop modern health care systems.
The man is in the hospital’s intensive care unit.· With Spectra or Dyneema, we have to adjust in the sleeving, and here a little extra care pays off dividends.· The Senate added a $ 16 billion tobacco tax to provide extra health care funding for uninsured children.· On the way down, the path can be muddy and steep and in places needs extra care.· Take extra care if you are travelling.· They tipped me for the extra care.· We need to take extra care when talking to elderly people because they may not see or hear so well.· In areas where gardens are protected and some extra care is provided, most cabbage varieties can be virtually a year-round crop.
· Others mentioned the convenience of having a booked admission date and better surroundings and care.· He danced her around the room, promised to take better care of her than anyone ever had.· Felicity loves it too, and probably takes far better care of it than I ever did.· We know that owners take better care of homes than renters.· She took good care of him.· Not all good day care is so costly.· We have to get him out Voice over Those who are to be brought out will receive the best of care.· We want better education, better roads, and better health care, for the same tax dollar.
· George is very kind and caring and took great care over Lennie.· In some stores, great care has gone into making that transformation pleasant.· Reintroduction of food after elemental regimens must nevertheless be undertaken with the greatest of care irrespective of whether or not elimination diets are used.· He began to weigh his words with great care, struggling to express himself as economically and clearly as possible.· She wears a pink suede jacket with a studded fringe which she takes great care to hang.· Taking great care where she placed her feet, she trod softly down the stairs.· My choice had to be made with the greatest care and the most alert diagnostic skill.· The stock must be chosen with great care.
· We re-interviewed those principal carers whose relatives, etc had moved to permanent institutional care by the end of one year.· The avoidance of unnecessary institutional care by assessment of need for care.· As we saw in Chapter 2 approximately 5 percent of those aged 65 + live in some form of institutional care.· In institutional care there should be no place for such people.· First is the possibility of an unnecessary increase in the number of old people consigned to institutional care.· Even so, they were generally being sustained at home at a cost below that of institutional care.· Only about 3-4% of all people aged 65+ are in some form of institutional care.· Cases were closed when a client died, moved away, or went into permanent institutional care.
· Infusion of 50 to 100 mEq per 12 hours requires very close monitoring, usually in an intensive care setting.· For the moment, Becky remains in intensive care, after falling from her horse on Saturday.· Her son remained in guarded condition Monday in an intensive care unit.· We have had public reports of a mortally ill little girl being unable to gain treatment in a paediatric intensive care unit.· He was put on a life support machine in intensive care.· This is not reported in the available literature on intensive care and may be a unique finding.· Will he accept that there is indeed an acute shortage of intensive care beds for children?
· There were lectures on quite advanced medical care, on intelligence-gathering, signalling and demolitions.· They mix medical care and great menu variety for safe, often lifetime weight loss.· Finally, such medical care will generally involve invasive drug therapy.· Women detainees often get inadequate medical care.· General practitioners have always had to manage and plan their businesses and are constantly adapting to changes in medical care.· These include expenses for training and lost productivity, which equal and / or exceed medical care costs.· With good medical care they often get better for a while.· Or should they be blamed on inadequate medical care, poor diet or other environmental factors?
· Every nurse in the ward is responsible for promoting good nursing care.· The following is an example of some cognitive objectives for teaching the nursing care of a patient recovering from heart surgery.· The expected benefits of improved knowledge and nursing care by the learner can be summarised in aims and objectives.· This can occur at any time but particularly when the student has been observed or supervised in her nursing care.· Communication within the caring team, and the formation of nursing care plans, ensures continuity of patient care.· He or she may have several diseases concurrently which will complicate nursing care.· The student will learn realistic ways of ensuring good nursing care even when the workload is heavy.· To develop an understanding of the psychological aspects of nursing care. 4.
· Computer generated protocols Editor, - Richard J Lilford and colleagues show that structured methods of recording data can improve patient care.· It is often the physician, as the person responsible for the activities required for patient care, who adopts this style.· But better patient care is the ultimate aim.· In these days of siege, psychiatrists must treat disaffection through militant group action and advocating conscientious, high-quality patient care.· Criticism of the service side of training should be encouraged so improvements in student learning and patient care can be developed.· The patient care records are reviewed against the established criteria.· Hospitals now sell patient care including operations, X-rays, and blood tests, charging for everything.· As well as acting as a support for the patient she will be gaining additional information relevant to her understanding of patient care.
· They combined domestic, personal care, and specialist skills, taught by other professionals, such as physiotherapy, or speech therapy.· The charge nurse and the nursing supervisor are the ones to talk to if there is any problem with personal care.· All our residents receive a very special, personal kind of care.· About 1 in 4 were in nursing and personal care facilities or offices and clinics of physicians.· Looking at the evidence available, there seem to be four main principles which determine who offers personal care.· For personal care the chain of complaint is: physician, charge nurse, nursing supervisor, hospital administrator, hospital director.· My brief review of personal care given by relatives has stressed the theme of variation, especially by gender.· The study, at a large Fortune 100 manufacturing company, focused on employees who provide personal care to an older relative.
· However, it is possible that the clients who benefit mostly from primary care might be the nurses themselves.· Medical groups often woo primary care doctors while sharply limiting the number o f specialists allowed on their referral lists.· It recommends that resources for the developments in primary and community care to pump-prime and provide transitional support be secured urgently.· Lahey Hitchock operates the largest physician practice in the state, employing more than 200 primary care doctors.· Undergraduate students have begun to recognise the importance of primary care.· Some primary care doctors' incomes have gone up slightly, and the others have seen their incomes remain steady.· Thus hospital recommendations, based on discounted prices, can result in high cost commitments for primary care.· Under managed care, patients are assigned to a primary care physician who determines what health services they will receive.
· A large number of private care agency customers are elderly or disabled people who are not social services clients.· A private care home in my constituency accepted an elderly lady for respite care.· The hon. Member for Wakefield said that he did not like private institutional care.· Further moves could also be made towards increasing the two-way interaction between public and private health care sectors.· Nine out of 10 directors say there should be compulsory registration of private care agencies.· That also means a commitment to private residential care as much as to local authority residential care.· Compensation packages for expatriates coming to Britain usually cover schooling costs, private medical care and housing costs.· There are good examples of what can be done in private care.
· Employees have a duty to take reasonable care in the performance of their duties.· If a teacher fails to exercise reasonable care to protect his or her students from injury, the teacher is negligent.· You must take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions which you can reasonably foresee would be likely to injure your neighbour.· If teachers do not use reasonable care, there is a breach of duty, and they are negligent.· Employees are themselves under a duty to take reasonable care not to injure others in the course of their work.· The duty in the law of negligence is not a duty to exercise reasonable care to avoid risk of causing injury.· As it fails to enable Alan to take reasonable care for his own safety it will not have this effect.· But if Clarence had exercised reasonable care, the court would have to decide whether the Trust were at fault.
· It is supposed to end the uncertainty surrounding the limits of control of young people in residential care.· The next chapter explores social work practice where a family member begins to need residential care.· Out of 174 local authorities, 97 or over half had no residential care facilities for children and 24 had no arrangements at all.· Women outnumber men by three to one in residential care.· Thus Southwark, which exports 70% of adults needing residential care, will not receive adequate funding to pay for future placements.· Fostering breakdowns account for an increasing number of admissions to residential care.· That also means a commitment to private residential care as much as to local authority residential care.· Then after ten weeks in residential care a family meeting was planned.
· Key points are: The report considers key national issues under the headings of community regeneration and social and community care.· Coherent planning and coordination of health and social care would be facilitated by coterminous boundaries between the two authorities.· These opinions will then be borne in mind when it comes to planning future health and social care policies.· Many social services staff care considerably about the inadequacies of the policies they administer.· Family support services. 5. Social care planning to mobilize packages of care. 6.· At what point does social care become nursing?· The care of stroke patients involves a plethora of different health and social care workers.· For the minority who receive social care, the characteristics are significant reminders of their individuality and diversity.
· Both groups need very special care - yet so often they are the forgotten people in our community.· The brave became a great chief, and he always took special care of his colt, which became a great horse.· Bright new facilities and therapies were provided, plus enlightened teaching and special care.· He took special care of the remaining one, and often slept with it in the corral.· Thousands upon thousands of dollars would go into special care, training, and equipment for her.· One example might be where a newborn child developed an infection requiring special care, but recovered in a few days.· Country roads are often narrow and winding, so drivers should take special care and slow down.
NOUN· It did nothing to provide better child care for women wishing to return to work.· Most of them are wealthy men whose wives raise their children. Child care is not high on their agenda.· Power relationships and relationships within informal networks are vitally important in all child care work.· And the state, asked to investigate, says that dressing up is an appropriate part of a child care curriculum.· In this area, solicitors can specialise in matters such as child care and other areas which specifically relate to local government.· Instead of hiring child care I traded it with other parents: I had a list as long as my arm.· We also have vacancies in specialist departments such as medicine and child care where the appropriate qualifications and experience are essential.· Fortunately, women have changed sufficiently to make child care an issue.
· This isn't just customer care: this is better margins and hard profit.· Training implies that they do not, yet nobody seems to be able to point to any deterioration in customer care.· Nothing about environmental impact, customer care, or good business practices.· The delegation looked at a range of hotel operations including food preparation, customer care programmes, sales and marketing and budgeting.· John had high standards of customer care and quality service.· He still had a lot of contacts who valued his priorities of customer care and quality.· Hotels have high standards of customer care and lift maintenance organisations have to understand these requirements.
· And an information day is being planned for anyone wanting to learn more about the day care centre appeal.· Child care: day care, nursery school, babysitting.· You are the person who actually provides the day to day care for residents.· According to industry statistics, companies lose a total of $ 3 billion a year to workers' day care problems.· Full day care facilities are available on request.· His vision of the future is centered on individuals: job training, access to college, day care and so forth.· The State of California shall provide a child welfare building to serve as day care centres for single parents.· He pledged that pensioners using the earmarked homes for short stays and for day care would be found alternative facilities.
· Day care facilities for the mentally handicapped include what used to be known as adult training centres.· We re licensed as an acute care facility.· Out of 174 local authorities, 97 or over half had no residential care facilities for children and 24 had no arrangements at all.· With this merger, there are concerns about what happens to the workers in these health care facilities.· Full day care facilities are available on request.· About 1 in 4 were in nursing and personal care facilities or offices and clinics of physicians.· Meanwhile, however, the lack of adequate community care facilities has led to a campaign to save the old mental hospitals.· There are no health care facilities. 7.
· The result should be health care that is more predictable and efficient.· It is essential that Londoners have the same rights of access to acute health care as their provincial counterparts.· Process is defined as the sequence of established activities or procedures used by providers in the delivery of health care.· In order to do this health authorities must have comprehensive information about the existing use of health care.· Reproductive health care, crucial to women, was, as it had ever been, slighted.· In Britain for the foreseeable future the ultimate purchaser of 80% or more of health care will continue to be the Treasury.· Physicians and other health care workers are trying to design a health care system.
· In-service training, weekly group meetings and monthly supervision sessions were all provided for the home care aides.· Long-term nursing home care would be the only benefit not available as soon as some one became a legal California resident.· In the last decade the private sector has started to develop the amount of residential and nursing home care it provided.· In the last six months of 1994 we had 65 people on home care.· It has become the main provider of affordable home care for the elderly.· Spending most of each day in out-of-home care is a real risk factor for a baby.· The night sitter left at 7 a.m. and the home care aide was due to come at 8 a.m.· The numbers of men, women and children covered by home care with 24 hour on call has doubled in a year.
· Products offered by service industries include hospital care, dental treatment, holiday arrangements and accountancy services, for example. 5.· She still needed hospital care but certainly seemed to be getting better.· She is in hospital care until the baby-swop is sorted out.· The training of more specialists and the provision of more day hospital care was duly set out.· A constant theme in research concerned with the hospital care of older people is the discharge from hospital back to the community.· Private nursing homes have higher levels of frailty than residential homes but not usually as high as long-stay hospital care.· However, hospitals can not be closed down overnight and there is a need for a more positive approach to hospital care.
· For those reasons I allow the appeal and I substitute an interim care order.· I was still under a care order so the Social Services put me in a hostel.· The order will terminate when the child ceases to be of compulsory school age or if a care order is made.· It can make a care order, a supervision order, a s8 order and a family assistance order.· It can also make a s8 order in addition to a supervision order but not a care order.· The local authority asserted that the threshold conditions, under which a care order could be made, had been met.· The courts must now make care orders committing children to the care of the local authority.· Social workers say they never had enough evidence of maltreatment to go to court for a care order.
· The addition of the care plan will enable service agreements to be tailored to meet the needs of the individual user.· Investor-owned managed care plans routinely take 20 percent to 30 percent of premium dollars off the top for profit and administration.· As part of the care plan.· The products and the care plans they produce are more in-depth.· Communication within the caring team, and the formation of nursing care plans, ensures continuity of patient care.· Her health care plan drew fire.· They must also show their HIV/AIDS services are fully integrated into their community care plans.· For some people, personal care plans will be drawn up.
· Then there is the still unworkable sum which overhangs all this budgeting: how much health care reform will cost.· The goals and activities in this plan are consistent with the goals set forth in recently proposed plans for health care reform.· Many general practitioners fear that the community care reforms will increase their own workload, too.· Doble pointed to one prime example of poor communication between elected officials and constituents: the health care reform debate.· It also examines the relation between care management and care programming and raises some questions about future developments in the light of community care reforms.· A far-reaching and comprehensive strategy, carefully integrated with broader plans for health care reform, is required.· In the autumn of 1991 the Bush administration showed no interest in health care reform.· The debate over health care reform in 1993-94 offers a vivid example.
· This has worked well for both permanent and respite care.· Any possibility of further reductions in respite care should be strenuously resisted.· Coupled with the financial implications if carers decided they could no longer shoulder this burden the case for supporting respite care becomes overwhelming.· Some proposals include provision of a day centre and respite care.· It briefly outlines activities such as helplines, respite care services and consultation on community care proposals.· A private care home in my constituency accepted an elderly lady for respite care.· It is also developing a respite care service.· A carers group might help, but what about some form of respite care for both the carer and the son?
· They could not cope even with very enhanced staffing levels and very supportive community care services.· To deal with illness, they fund health care services.· We are entering a period of deterioration in health care services.· The salons, formerly known as Toni & Guy, offer clients a complete hair care service and have been completely refurbished.· How much is spent on health care services?· And it establishes care trusts and sets out legislation on long-term care excluding nursing care from community care services.· An important feature will be the investigation of the relationship between women workers and women users of primary health care services.· We've already identified a need for a home care service which we aim to meet.
· This paper underlines the importance of maintaining a functional health care system even during times of political change and unrest.· Whatever Congress does to fix it is likely to put severe pressures on the rest of the health care system.· We can now deal with the main problems that could arise in the new community care system.· That was the conclusion of a General Accounting Office report in 1992 on fraud in the health care system.· Primary care physicians' experience of financial incentives in managed-care systems.· Once they are enmeshed in the often-chaotic foster care system it is extraordinarily difficult to get out of it.· New hair care system One of the most exciting happenings in hair and scalp care lately comes from respected trichologist Philip Kingsley.· Our health care system is out of control.
· He was offering me the trip of a lifetime, and all I had to do was take care of the meals.· When sanding take care not to round the sharp edges.· The expert's advice today was take care.
· From these studies we've developed criteria to identify who needs to go to a coronary care unit and who doesn't.· There is a 16-bed intensive care unit and two operating rooms that can also be expanded.· Mrs Carrington takes up the account from the time when her husband was admitted to the intensive care unit.· Ludington plans to introduce the therapy into the transitional care unit that caters to preemies at the University of Maryland Medical Center.· Facilities will include an intensive care unit and an oiled bird cleaning facility.· He is in stable condition in the intensive care unit at Kaiser Medical Center in Vallejo.· The second is, if there are to be intensive care units, what share of resources should they have?· Her son remained in guarded condition Monday in an intensive care unit.
· Hazards associated with heating and walking are examples of matters to which care workers must attend.· Maritza started to work with the foster care workers to get her children back.· The revised guidelines are expected to avoid giving care workers specific advice on how to physically restrain absconders.· Social workers and other primary care workers are well placed to identify people who have long-term social difficulties and poor coping resources.· Health care workers should have a tuberculin skin test at least every two years.· Yet it illustrates vividly the extent of the power which may be implicit in the relationship between care worker and old person.· Further information: Recruiting and employing a personal care worker by M Dunne.
VERB· The St Helens project was initiated and led by the health authority but really managed by the joint care planning team.· Under the regional managed care systems, most Medicaid patients would be served by health maintenance organizations.· Doctors' incomes Doctors are generally earning less these days as managed care becomes a larger part of the medical marketplace.· Meanwhile, economists argue about whether the true cost of healthcare has even gone down under managed care.· He says that managed care firms integrate physical and mental health care.· Shares of the managed-care company rose 1 1 / 2 to 58 1 / 4.· California leads the nation in shifting to managed care, with San Diego County in the vanguard.· But now, cost pressures in competitive managed care markets have led to cost-cutting.
· To succeed, you needed to take great care that you peaked just as the winning-post hove into view.· This child also needs consistency in his care and love.· The next chapter explores social work practice where a family member begins to need residential care.· Who is likely to need long-term care insurance?· On the way down, the path can be muddy and steep and in places needs extra care.· They are usually set up near their convents, for premature and sick children need constant care.· We need to take extra care when talking to elderly people because they may not see or hear so well.· It will need your care to become established, especially in hot, dry weather.
· Reflect the principal aspirations of the professions to provide better care.· Or one county could provide child care while the next county did not.· He says they've got the interests of the whole county to consider and they want to provide modern patient care.· As the staff looks toward the future, its game plan is to provide quality care.· The Health Education Council project on providing effective health care in a multi-racial society provides a useful checklist for assessing local services.· She had a network of neighbors and relatives that provided child care.· Community-based clinics, such as Aldershot Health Centre, can provide complete care for leg ulcers.· Some patients report troubles persuading their managed-care health plans to provide cutting-edge care.
· When a child or young person is received into care a placement with a carer or carers has to be made.· He estimated that half had been receiving substandard care.· I must give you my personal assurances that this infant is receiving perfect care.· Or it could mean you received no care at all.· Did they receive similar care at the same time or in the same order?· Also, the percentage of District women who receive adequate prenatal care has improved somewhat since the start of the decade.· Further requests were made to receive S into care.· In many places, the children of these immigrants were prevented from going to school or receiving medical care.
· This requires care and patience in the preparation, performance, and marking of the tests but it can be most rewarding.· Obviously, sleeping pills are not harmless; they are drugs that require caution and care in use.· A child may, for instance, be born with serious handicaps or developmental problems requiring extended periods of care.· Or should they concentrate their efforts on looking after those sufferers who require nursing care in day hospitals or wards?· It does not require science to inform us that infants require infant care and children require child care.· If the disorder is severe the patient may also require full care and, very occasionally, physical control.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► care of somebody► have a care!PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► not know/care beans (about somebody/something)► not give a fig/not care a fig (about/for something/somebody)► don’t give a hoot/don’t care two hoots► not give/care a sod► not care/give tuppence
- Many youngsters who've been brought up in care are often incapable of looking after themselves.
- The number of children in care in Oxfordshire is falling.
- Don't worry about the bill; it's taken care of.
- Her secretary will take care of the details.
- My mother said she'd take care of Luisa next weekend.
- The class teaches kids how to take care of their bikes.
- But take care of them, darling.
- He never washed, but considered swimming nearly every day took care of that.
- I can take care of that.
- I will take care of it right away.
- Most tasks entrusted to governments were also fairly straight forward, so performance tended to take care of itself.
- Nature does take care of itself if allowed to.
- Some one has to take care of them 24 hours a day.
- The software company takes care of the rest.
- "All right, Pat. Take care." "You too, Sally. Bye bye."
- I always take great care with diets, so I don't lose too much weight too quickly.
- It's very icy, so take care driving home.
- Look at all these typing errors! Can't you take more care?
- Of course you don't have to spend all your time worrying about possible health hazards, but you still need to take care.
- Sally doesn't take nearly enough care with her accounts.
- Take care and we'll talk to you soon.
- Take care how you cross the road. Most drivers ignore the traffic lights and just drive through.
- Take care not to leave any money in the changing rooms.
- Take care to label all the disks with the correct file names.
- Take care when you open the van door, sometimes it springs open suddenly.
- Take care, Martin and Sophie
- Take care. That gun's loaded.
- Couldn't Anna tell that she ought to take care?
- Cynthia would know what to do; she would take care of it and leave Evie with new hope in her heart.
- I take care of Chavez for Mr Vee and come home to stale tangled sheets.
- It would ensure the house being taken care of, and the staff maintained, since you say they're good tenants.
- The council will take care of that.
- There are three main reasons for taking care of an elderly person.
- With a longer life span, a lot of people are just becoming too frail to take care of themselves.
- Lucker, who isolates himself and drowns himself out, who doesn't take care with me.
- Real teachers with real kids have to take care with written communication.
- Developments in day care, the home help service and other domiciliary services were the currency of growth in these departments.
- Hence domiciliary visits by medical staff are an integral part of any specialist service.
- It supplements care by kin, but families continue to provide the bulk of domiciliary care.
- Last year only voluntary Welfare Officer alone, made over 102 domiciliary visits.
- Nevertheless, companies trading in domiciliary care are now beginning to multiply - some from a base in the residential sector.
- One of the principal domiciliary services is that of home helps.
- Success typically gives access to one existing service, such as domiciliary care, and rejects another, such as residential care.
- Traditionally the burden of long-term domiciliary care has fallen on women.
- Mom gave us kids a lot of tender loving care.
- Right now I just need some tender loving care.
- At some level they still cling to the idea that tender loving care is the only factor in raising kids.
- Hospitals needed some one to give tender loving care to chil-dren, social agencies had various similar needs, and so on.
- It is the routine and tender loving care of the staff that create the best atmosphere.
- Lucky patients get superb nursing care, infused with professionalism and tender loving care.
- Mandy had plied her with tender loving care until the tears had come.
- The Backup New yachts suffer from teething problems, and older yachts need lots of tender loving care.
- Voice over Millie will need tender loving care and a lot of medical treatment before going home.
- With glass and tender loving care it can be done.
- Brian was always keen to stress that the comfort and wellbeing of the birds was of the utmost importance.
- Everyone has the utmost respect for Rickey Henderson.
- How soon and how broadly will you communicate that the changes at hand are of the utmost importance?
- Hygiene and safety take priority on the sunbeds while personal supervision is regarded as of the utmost importance on the toning tables.
- In fact I have the utmost respect for it.
- In particular in the sophisticated world of alchemy, the resonances of chemical and other truths were of the utmost importance.
- It is of the utmost importance that it is the mind of the human operator doing the selecting.
- Professors Berry and Mott are right to stress that the support of the child and the family is of the utmost importance.
WORD FAMILYnouncarecareradjectivecareful ≠ carelesscaring ≠ uncaringverbcareadverbcarefully ≠ carelessly
1looking after somebody [uncountable] the process of looking after someone, especially because they are ill, old, or very young: high standards of medical care They shared the care of the children. Care facilities for the elderly are inadequate.in somebody’s care (=being looked after by someone) The children had been left in the care of a babysitter.be under somebody’s care (=be officially looked after or treated by someone) Mentally ill patients will be under the care of a psychiatrist. → day care, health care, intensive care, → tender loving care at tender1(5)2take care of somebody/something a)to look after someone or something: Who’s taking care of the dog while you’re away?take care of yourself The children are old enough to take care of themselves. b)to deal with all the necessary work, arrangements etc: Her secretary always took care of the details. Don’t worry about your accommodation – it’s all taken care of. c)to pay for something – used when you want to avoid saying this directly: We’ll take care of the fees.3take care a)spoken used when saying goodbye to family and friends: Take care! See you next week! b)to be careful: Take care when driving in icy conditions.take care to do something Take care to ensure that the ladder is steady before you climb it.take care (that) Take care that the meat is cooked properly.4keeping something in good condition [uncountable] the process of doing things to keep something in good condition and working correctly: With proper care, the washing machine should last for years. advice on skin care5carefulness [uncountable] when you are careful to avoid damage, mistakes etc: The note on the box said ‘Fragile – handle with care’. The picture had been drawn with great care.6take care over/with something to spend a lot of time and effort making sure that something is perfect: Paul always takes great care over his appearance.7in care British English a child who is in care is being looked after by the government, not by their parents: When he was sent to prison, the children were taken into care.8problem/worry [countable, uncountable] literary something that causes problems and makes you anxious or sad: At last I felt free from my cares. Alex looked as though he didn’t have a care in the world (=had no problems or worries). a man with the cares of the world on his shoulders (=with a lot of problems or worries)9care of somebody British English, in care of somebody American English used when sending letters to someone at someone else’s address SYN c/o: Send me the letter care of my uncle.10have a care! British English spoken old-fashioned used to tell someone to be more carefulCOLLOCATIONStypes of caremedical care· People expect good standards of medical care.health care· The government has put a lot more money into health care.hospital care· £50.6m is to be spent on hospital care.community care (=in the area where you live rather than in hospitals)· Most mentally ill people are now treated through community care.home care (=in people’s own homes)· You can find home care through family service agencies.patient care (=care of someone who is ill)· The changes should lead to better patient care.inpatient/outpatient care (=for people in hospital/not in hospital)· Outpatient care is generally less expensive than a stay in hospital.nursing care· The important thing is the quality of the nursing care.residential care (=for ill or old people in a place where they stay)· They used the money to pay for residential care.intensive care (=for people who are very seriously ill)· He needed intensive care for several weeks.after-school care· Children with both parents working long hours need after-school care.constant/round-the-clock care (=all day and all night)· He needs round-the-clock care.short-term/long-term care· The home provides short-term care for elderly people.verbsprovide care· The charity provides care and shelter for homeless people.need/require care· She had an aging mother who required constant care.receive care· Every citizen has the right to receive health care.care + NOUNa care worker British English (=someone whose job is looking after people)· She's a part-time care worker with mentally ill adults.care services/facilities· How much money is spent on health care services?THESAURUS– Meaning 5carefulnesscare if you do something with care, you are careful to avoid damage, mistakes etc: · She put the needle in with great care.· Everyone should take care in the sun.caution care to avoid danger or risks, or care about trusting information that might not be true: · Her evidence should be treated with caution.· There was a certain lack of caution among investors.prudence a sensible and careful attitude that makes you avoid unnecessary risks – a rather formal use: · Banks should show more prudence in lending money.vigilance careful attention to what is happening, so that you will notice any danger or illegal activity: · Governments from across the world have called for greater vigilance against Internet-based crime.· There is a need for constant vigilance to protect vulnerable people.regard for something careful attention and consideration shown to something, to avoid danger or risks – used especially when someone fails to do this: · The court heard that the company had shown no regard for the safety of its employees.· These men are cold-blooded killers and have little regard for human life.tact care not to say anything that might offend or upset someone: · He handled the matter with a great deal of tact.discretion care to deal with situations in a way that does not embarrass, upset or offend people, especially by not telling any of their secrets: · Any confidential information was treated with discretion.care1 nouncare2 verb
carecare2 ●●● S1 W2 verb [intransitive, transitive] VERB TABLE
care
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | care |
| he, she, it | cares | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | cared |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have cared |
| he, she, it | has cared | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had cared |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will care |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have cared |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Buy her some flowers to show her you really care.
- I'm very lucky to have a husband, family and friends who care about me.
- Of course I care about Kirsty - that's why I want to help her.
- Of course I care about the homeless and the unemployed, but what can I do?
- She thinks we're interfering but we're only doing it because we care.
- Some kids' parents don't care what they do.
- Thousands are dying from disease and starvation and yet no one seems to care.
- We make a range of natural, additive-free foods for people who really care what they eat.
- But audiences didn't care if the film died.
- But Theresa would not care, being almost glad to be all wrong in some sphere.
- Despite knowing all this, and caring about it, I would sometimes lose the rag with him.
- He was saying that he cared about them too much to let them feed on self-delusion.
- If Foley were a traitor, he did not care who knew it, it would seem.
- The building is crawling with people who seem to care less about the job itself than about holding on to it.
- We care not a pin, though they are ne'er so sad.
THESAURUS
(also look after somebody especially British English) to make sure a child or an old or sick person is safe and has the things they need: · I have to look after my little brother.· Taking care of a baby is hard work.· She is taking care of her grandmother while her grandfather is in hospital.
to take care of someone. Care for somebody is less common and more formal than take care of/look after somebody: · He was cared for by a team of nurses.· Caring for an elderly relative can be very rewarding.
to look after someone who is ill: · He nursed his wife through a long illness.· The monks nursed him back to health (=looked after him until he was well again).
to look after children in the evening while their parents go out somewhere: · I’ll ask Jane to babysit on Wednesday night.· He used to babysit for Mary when she worked nights.
British English to look after a child while their parents are not there, especially for a short time: · Will you mind the baby while I go to the shop?
Longman Language Activatorwhen you do not care about something because it is not important to you if you don't care about something, it is not important to you: · "What do you think I should do?" "I don't care. Do what you want."not care what/whether/if etc: · I like George, and I don't care what anyone else thinks about him.· I don't care what my parents say - I am going to the party.not care about: · She doesn't care about anything except money.
informal to not care at all about something: · The politicians are making a big deal out of the issue, but most voters couldn't care less.couldn't care less about: · Shelley couldn't care less about what other people thought of her.couldn't care less whether/if: · To be perfectly honest with you, I couldn't care less whether he comes or not.
spoken to not care at all about something - use this when you are very annoyed with someone or something: not give a damn about: · You're so selfish. You don't give a damn about anyone except for yourself.not give a damn what/who/why etc: · I don't really give a damn what the press says.
to no longer care about something that you were worried about for a long time, because you realize that the situation cannot be changed: · I used to worry a lot about my weight when I was young, but now I'm past caring.· The company wrote and apologized for their mistake, but by then Sarah was past caring.
spoken say this when you do not care at all what someone does or what happens to them, especially when you are annoyed with them: · I don't want to hear any more about her. She can drop dead for all I care.
spoken informal say this when you do not care about something, because you do not think it is important at all: · So your house isn't perfectly clean. Who cares?· "Phil was really angry when he heard what you had done.'' "So what? It's none of his business.''· "He says he's depressed and really short of money." "What do I care? It's his own fault."
spoken say this when you do not care if someone does what they have threatened to do: · "Brenda says she's going to quit unless we give her a raise." "Let her quit then. It's not as if we can't find another nanny."· "They're threatening to disconnect the phone unless we pay the bill." "Let them!"
spoken informal say this when someone tells you about a problem they have and you do not have any sympathy for them, especially because you feel angry with them: · "Mom, I don't want to go to school today." "Tough! You're going anyway."· "Can't we stop? I'm hungry." "That's tough. I told you to eat something before we left the house."
someone or something that you care a lot about if something is important to you, you care a lot about it, and it has an important influence on the way you think and behave: · Which is more important to you - your family or your career?be important to somebody: · While I was a student, my parents' support and encouragement were very important to me.the important thing (=the only important thing): · At least the children are safe - that's the important thing.
if you care about something or someone, you think they are important and you pay attention to them, consider their feelings etc: · Thousands are dying from disease and starvation and yet no one seems to care.care about: · Of course I care about the homeless and the unemployed, but what can I do?care what/who etc: · We make a range of natural, additive-free foods for people who really care what they eat.
especially spoken if someone or something means a lot to you, you care about them or think about them a lot, and your happiness depends on them: · You mustn't discourage her - this job means a lot to her.mean everything to somebody (=to be more important than anything else): · Karen trained day and night - winning the gold medal meant everything to her.
if something or someone is your whole life , they are so important to you that life would seem to have no meaning without them and you would be very unhappy: · I could never consider another career -- making films is my whole life.· Paul loves you very much. You are his whole life.
if you live for something or someone, they are the most important or enjoyable thing in your life: · Margot lived for ballet and was completely dedicated.· Bob lives for just two things -- his daughters and his music.
especially British if someone is or means (all) the world to you, they are more important to you than anyone else because you love them so much: · My son means all the world to me. If anything happened to him I'd never forgive myself.
the thing that someone considers to be the most important thing in their life - use this when you think that they are wrong to think that it is the most important thing: · Going to university isn't the be all and end all, you know.
to look after someone especially British to spend time with a child or with someone who is old or sick, and make sure they are safe and have the things they need: · Can you look after the kids for me this afternoon?· I've told you, I can't come. There's no one to look after Frieda.· Jonathon has no idea what it means to take care of a baby all day long. · We specialize in helping caregivers who take care of relatives in their own homes.
to look after someone who is very ill or very old by doing everything for them: · Elsie had to leave her job to care for her sick father.· St Helen's Hospice, which cares for the terminally ill, is holding a special fund-raising week.· It is one of the only charities to care for Aids patients and ex-prisoners.
British to look after children for a short time while their parents are out doing something else: · The woman who minds Pip and Emma collects them from school and gives them an evening meal.· Mothers who work part-time are able to mind other people's children when they are not working.
also sit American to look after children in the evening while their parents go out somewhere, especially when they pay you a small amount of money for doing this: · I'll ask Jane to babysit on Wednesday night.· Ask Alex and Joan next time you're babysitting.babysit for: · He used to babysit for Mary when she worked nights.· Jenny sat for us last Friday evening when we went to the movies.
to stay with a child and watch them to see that they are safe, especially for a short time: · Benjy, I want you to stay in the yard where I can keep an eye on you.· Would you mind keeping an eye on Stacey while I go for a cigarette?keep a close/careful/watchful eye on somebody: · He warned parents to continue to keep a close eye on their children.
to look after someone who is ill and to make them well again or to make them comfortable: · Tony nursed his wife through her long illness without ever complaining.· Irina had wanted to nurse him, but the doctors had sent her away.nurse somebody back to health (=look after a sick person until they are well again): · The monks tended his wounds and nursed him back to health.
British /caregiver American someone who looks after another person who is too young or ill to look after himself or herself - used especially on official forms, in official letters, in newspapers etc: · Hospital staff can provide additional home support for carers.· We have a high number of volunteer carers at the day centre.· Like many caregivers, Marian gave up her job to provide 24-hour care for an elderly relative.
to like someone a lot and care about them to love someone in your family, so that you care a lot about what happens to them, and you want them to be happy: · I really believed that my parents didn't love me.· He loved his stepdaughter as if she were his own child.
if people are close , they enjoy being together and they know and understand each other's feelings and thoughts: · My sister and I used to argue a lot, but now we're very close.· We have always been a close family.close to: · I'm still very close to my parents.
to like someone very much, especially after spending a long time with them and getting to know them: · I'm very fond of my sister's children.· All teachers have children that they are particularly fond of.· We were all very fond of Mr Edwards.
to feel love and concern for someone: · She thinks we're interfering but we're only doing it because we care.· Buy her some flowers to show her you really care.care about: · I'm very lucky to have a husband, family and friends who care about me.· Of course I care about Kirsty - that's why I want to help her.
to love someone very much and feel proud of them: · Branwell Bronte adored his sister Anne.· She adores her grandchildren and is always buying them presents.
to love and admire someone very much: · He worshipped his elder brother.worship the ground somebody walks on (=love someone very much, even if they behave badly): · In Susie's eyes he can do no wrong - she worships the ground he walks on.
to love someone very much and be very loyal to them or spend all your time with them: · He is a good man, devoted to his wife and children.
to love someone, especially someone younger than you, very much and show this by your actions: · He'd do anything for his children - he really dotes on them.· She obviously dotes on her grandson.· You should visit your aunt more often, you know how she dotes on you all.
to love and respect someone so much that they are very important in your life: · We all thought the world of Isaac and were devastated when he died.· He thinks the world of his uncle.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY ‘He looked angry.’ ‘I don’t care!’ I’ve experienced more reorganizations than I care to remember (=a lot of them).COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES regular antenatal care subsidized day care facilities Dental care was free in the 60s. a devil-may-care attitude to life Drivers are advised to take extra care. It is necessary to use extreme caution with chemicals. John always takes great care over his work. She left her son in the care of a friend. What that child needs is plenty of loving care. the loving care with which the house has been restored The injury required urgent medical attention. Sarah has a new boyfriend – not that I care (=I do not care). The man is in the hospital’s intensive care unit.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
‘He looked angry.’ ‘I don’t care!’ I’ve experienced more reorganizations than I care to remember (=a lot of them). regular antenatal care (=care for the sick, the old etc in their community rather than in hospital)· Several voluntary organizations are involved in providing community care.
(=serving and looking after customers)· Our aim is always to raise the level of customer service.
subsidized day care facilities Dental care was free in the 60s. a devil-may-care attitude to life Drivers are advised to take extra care. It is necessary to use extreme caution with chemicals. John always takes great care over his work. (=care from doctors, nurses etc)· Many Americans cannot afford even basic health care.
· What do older people think of hospital care?
She left her son in the care of a friend. What that child needs is plenty of loving care. the loving care with which the house has been restored The injury required urgent medical attention.· None of us care what happens to him.
Sarah has a new boyfriend – not that I care (=I do not care).· The West should be helping these countries to develop modern health care systems.
The man is in the hospital’s intensive care unit.· All you've ever cared about is being approved of, like a little girl at a party.· In the end, all you really cared about was what the Krausses of this world would think.· Even the cash-flow predictions they cared about so much were nothing to her but answers she wanted ticked.· The results were shocking, at least to people who care about squandered money.· All he cares about are women and booze.· Because no one I cared about ever looked at me as if I were beautiful.· I care the way Jefferson cared about his rats and their portal shunts.· The last person West buried that he cared about was his wife.
· Billie could see their closeness when Adam let her out, saw that they cared deeply for each other.· We care deeply about u hat governments do, but this is a book about how they work.· I care deeply about the comedy in the movie, that it's well-executed and fresh.· He cared deeply about his beloved state of Massachusetts and about our country and its future.· Yes, she had really cared deeply.· He cared deeply for the human condition.· It hurt her to think that Fernando cared deeply enough for another woman to do it.· The marriage was a good one and Brenda and her husband clearly cared deeply about each other.
· Some one cares enough to sponsor his education.· He couldn't move as Richmann passed out of his field of vision, not caring enough to even notice Carrefour any longer.· She thought she would never care enough about anyone to give birth to them or to kill them.· She had not tried hard enough because she did not care enough.· Only Jezrael doesn't care enough to find me, does she?· I don't frankly think he cares enough either way to worry.· After months of weeping and shouting and apologising, she did not care enough.
· Once the young are born they may be cared for by both their parents for many days.· They want to have babies, but only as many as they can care for.· Some older people want to be cared for by their children, others most definitely do not.· Some small but particularly beautiful areas of woods, cliffs and islands are preserved and cared for by the National Trust.· He was cared for by the Sisters of Mercy at the Horsforth home for retired clergy.· If the message could have been from some one you care for, then where's the harm in it?· Thus, those who are committed to caring for and working with old people have first to face two facts.
· Sailors waiting there hauled them roughly on to the ship, not caring how they landed.· Alyssia didn't care how she looked.· I don't care how long it takes us.· As far as he is concerned, nobody cares how accurate our portrayal of Claudia's love life is.· And even people who say they don't care how they look care how they look.· Since Caliban wants to give, I don't care how much paper I waste.· Obviously Delia Cope is a white middle class racist woman who really doesn't care how she oppresses us as Black women.
· Many of them care less about the exchange rate than about what is shown on the chart on the right.· Today, corporations have become more streamlined and less caring.· But at this moment Kate could not have cared less if he was a mass murderer.· Guess their Sunday viewers are mostly trailer dwellers who could care less about public affairs.· I was sopping, and I didn't care less.· Now I seem to care less and less.· They sort of couldn't care less if you were going to leave at the end of the fourth year.· The suits overseeing news and editorial functions have no loyalty to this community and could care less about it.
· He didn't much care for it now that he looked at it closely.· Nobody cared much what happened to it.· I do not care much now about the way the women gape at me when I walk around in the village center.· If Mr Parnham doesn't like it and we're both fired then I don't much care.· Their menus had been planned with as much care as any part of the mission.· Anyhow, he did not care much.· Though I was floundering, I did not much care.
· She had contrarily thought that if he really cared he would have come running after her.· In the end, all you really cared about was what the Krausses of this world would think.· Do you know, sometimes I feel that the only person he really cares for on this earth is the Begum.· I don't really care about what happened last year.· I have to say I didn't really care much for that kind of approach.· How deeply did people really care?· Even if that flat pass from Wilkinson was forward, it was so short that nobody really cared.· But be honest, do you really care?
NOUN· Sangenic is so easy and quick to use that it allows you more time to care for your baby.· The infant's death occurred when her father was caring for the baby while his wife was at work.· It was then that Carrie took over, dividing her time between caring for her baby and attending to her customers.· You will soon see how Pampers are caring for your baby ... and your baby's world.· I share at least half the household duties, including feeding and caring for the baby while my partner works and plays.· The couple caring for the baby in their Middlesbrough home realise there is a long way to go.· Visits Heidi's mum Christine, who is unable to care for baby because of severe post-natal depression, visits every day.· I no longer need to work and she was delighted when I offered to care for the baby during the week.
· They get married and move, and may have young children to care for.· The study was of 482 children who were cared for by a private pediatric practice in suburban Philadelphia.· The animal kingdom gets its fair share of attention as children learn how to care for pets.· With one small child to care for, she went on welfare, and soon won a scholarship to college.· Currently grandparents are raising 3. 4 million children; 6 million families depend on grandparents for primary child care.· Girl, now show me my way, for I have a child to care for.· Eliminating state barriers to checking criminal backgrounds of child care workers.
· Relatives are often fearful of complaining lest there is a backlash in the kind of treatment or care the family member receives.· Women who really care about their families make it fresh every day.· They don't care about their families.· She was cared for by various families of the city and earned money for her board by attending small children.· They don't care about the family man getting shot, they don't care about the families.· What did Claire care about families?· He didn't care if his family thought him great.
· However, in health care the concept is more difficult to explain.· She spends $ 300 or less on health care a year and pays $ 1, 625 in Medicare and Medigap premiums.· Take, for example, the vexed subject of health care.· She knew nothing about health care.· The trend is likely to place unprecedented demands on the health care system, principally for nursing and custodial care.· It was also a strong year for health care investing.· No employer would have to pay more than 7. 9 percent of payroll on health care.· During the quarter, investors continued to snap up selected stocks in two hot industries: technology and health care.
· The new hospital will care for the annual 3,000 or so wildlife casualties in the area.· But they believe there will always be a need for hospitals to care for volatile children who have exhausted every other alternative.· The staff were used to the rigours of war ... The hospital was opened to care for Amnerican casualties in 1942.· Improving models I work in a psychiatric hospital on a unit caring for functionally ill elderly people.· Relatives may make a gift to a local hospital that has cared for a loved one.· The trial continues. HOSPITAL nurses caring for elderly patients are fighting plans to ban uniforms on the wards.
· Spurred by the horrors he witnessed in war, Cheshire dedicated his life to caring for others after it was over.· Of course, he'd given up medicine to pursue comedy, but he was absolutely at his best when caring for others.· He seemed to care little about what others, beyond his parents, thought of him.· Lucky child, to be so well cared for while others suffer so much!· I have cared for others all of my adult life.· The ultimate virtue, I thought, is caring for others.· Who relieves the state of the burden of caring for others?
· Many adult children gain great happiness from caring for a much-loved parent in the closing years of their life.· Will restoring some economic equity to the family guarantee that every child will have responsible and caring parents?· It's the strain of caring for a parent with Alzheimers disease.· The ideal of caring for aging parents is sufficiently strong that even the most undeserving aging parents can ride its coattails.· We are also taught to be caring and nurturing parents.· The opportunity exists right there to be a wise and caring parent.· Many daughters who are caring full-time for a parent or parents at home have financial worries too.· It is women who have traditionally borne the daily burden of caring for ill parents, children, relatives and friends.
· The abilities of staff and availability of facilities to care for critically ill patients vary in all areas of health care.· In both black and Latino practices, doctors were more likely to care for the poor patients.· These will be in effect, a statement of the treatment and care a patient should receive with associated standards attached.· He had been caring for a stroke patient who seemed to understand much of what was said to him.· The student who has cared for a patient is in the best position to evaluate and report on his or her progress.· Most people caring for diabetic patients realise the importance of the patient actively participating in the very first injection of insulin.· As a junior nurse it is important that you receive extra instruction and practice under supervision before caring for these patients.· Specialist nurses Many health authorities employ nurses in specialist roles to care for patients with particular needs.
· The government's being urged to provide more financial support for people who care for sick or disabled relatives.· Few people notice or perhaps care when such inspections are directed at commercial enterprises.· Some older people want to be cared for by their children, others most definitely do not.· A few people care about news, and only a tiny percentage of those care about serious news.· There are some people who don't care if you are a hero or not.· Only shallow people care about appearances, so if I look like this, I must be deep.· But other people wouldn't care about that.· James was also tremendously loyal to people he cared about, and in him I found a true friend.
VERB· I really want to know she is loved and cared for.· The heart-centred loving and caring aspect of our make-up is where compassion resides.· What is important, however, is to convey to children that they are loved and cared for.
· He didn't seem to care that Nick was so much younger than he was.· He seemed to care little about what others, beyond his parents, thought of him.· But very few people seem to care.· But the public seemed not to care.· He didn't seem to care.· But my psychology professors seemed not to care at all about minorities.· Few academic historians seem to care about the literary elegance that sustains the essay form.· The building is crawling with people who seem to care less about the job itself than about holding on to it.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► as if I cared!► any ... you care to name/mention► see if I care!► somebody couldn’t care lessPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► not know/care beans (about somebody/something)► not give a fig/not care a fig (about/for something/somebody)► don’t give a hoot/don’t care two hoots► not give/care a sod► not care/give tuppence
- He tells the chauffeur to go gas up the limo, and what does he care?
- "Dave's moving to Boston." "He can move to Timbuktu, for all I care."
- It's not something I care to discuss.
- Wyatt's old friends didn't care to visit, with a baby in the house.
- At least, not precisely in the act of anything Mrs Dallam would not care to know about.
- But I have to make one comment you might not care to hear: A woman does have a choice.
- De Gaulle apparently did not care to give ministers an opportunity to make important decisions without his supervision.
- He did not care to know how many female holly trees a single male could bring to berry.
- He suspected Hubert had erred in some way, but did not care to ask.
- I would not care to live in the vicinity of such a device.
- The poets did not care to linger in that gloom-hidden abode.
- Unfortunately, Roth did not care to focus on broader and more important issues about the fate of the seized-assets program itself.
- Would you care to comment on that, Senator?
- Would you care for a drink?
- How well would he care for them?
- He did not gain many public commissions, because he did not care for architectural competitions.
- I did not care for him.
- In addition, a reader for whom a happy ending is essential may not care for some of Joan Aiken. 4.
- Let us wash our hands of those who do not care for us.
- My husband and the minister wives who come to the party do not care for the rice cake.
- Now the whole country is run by a myopic bourgeoisie with a mentality that does not care for the people.
- Some people do not make good managers, or do not care for management tasks.
- The dean's daughter did not care for shell-fish, so they were forced to start dinner with caviare.
- Am I the only one, he asked himself, who cares anything for Durkin?
- Because with so much money, who cares?
- Butterflies - who cares? also has its first showing at Kelvingrove - and will run until 20 June.
- It is an issue for anyone who cares for the sanctity of human life.
- The cisterns run empty by July if we're lucky, and who cares?
- The point is that every teacher who cares about being a fine teacher has an identification with these principles.
- Who cares if some 19,000 voters in Palm Beach County were effectively disenfranchised?
- Who cares? the President replied.
- Developments in day care, the home help service and other domiciliary services were the currency of growth in these departments.
- Hence domiciliary visits by medical staff are an integral part of any specialist service.
- It supplements care by kin, but families continue to provide the bulk of domiciliary care.
- Last year only voluntary Welfare Officer alone, made over 102 domiciliary visits.
- Nevertheless, companies trading in domiciliary care are now beginning to multiply - some from a base in the residential sector.
- One of the principal domiciliary services is that of home helps.
- Success typically gives access to one existing service, such as domiciliary care, and rejects another, such as residential care.
- Traditionally the burden of long-term domiciliary care has fallen on women.
- Mom gave us kids a lot of tender loving care.
- Right now I just need some tender loving care.
- At some level they still cling to the idea that tender loving care is the only factor in raising kids.
- Hospitals needed some one to give tender loving care to chil-dren, social agencies had various similar needs, and so on.
- It is the routine and tender loving care of the staff that create the best atmosphere.
- Lucky patients get superb nursing care, infused with professionalism and tender loving care.
- Mandy had plied her with tender loving care until the tears had come.
- The Backup New yachts suffer from teething problems, and older yachts need lots of tender loving care.
- Voice over Millie will need tender loving care and a lot of medical treatment before going home.
- With glass and tender loving care it can be done.
- Brian was always keen to stress that the comfort and wellbeing of the birds was of the utmost importance.
- Everyone has the utmost respect for Rickey Henderson.
- How soon and how broadly will you communicate that the changes at hand are of the utmost importance?
- Hygiene and safety take priority on the sunbeds while personal supervision is regarded as of the utmost importance on the toning tables.
- In fact I have the utmost respect for it.
- In particular in the sophisticated world of alchemy, the resonances of chemical and other truths were of the utmost importance.
- It is of the utmost importance that it is the mind of the human operator doing the selecting.
- Professors Berry and Mott are right to stress that the support of the child and the family is of the utmost importance.
WORD FAMILYnouncarecareradjectivecareful ≠ carelesscaring ≠ uncaringverbcareadverbcarefully ≠ carelessly
1to think that something is important, so that you are interested in it, worried about it etccare about The only thing he seems to care about is money.care what/how/whether etc She didn’t care what her father thought. ‘He looked angry.’ ‘I don’t care!’2to be concerned about what happens to someone, because you like or love themcare about I care about him and hate to see him hurt like this. She felt that nobody cared.3who cares? spoken used to say that something does not worry or upset you because it is not important: It’s rather old and scruffy, but who cares?4see if I care! spoken used when you are angry or upset, to say that you do not care about what someone will do: Go with William, then – see if I care!5somebody couldn’t care less spoken used to say that someone does not care at all about something: I really couldn’t care less what you think!6what does somebody care? spoken used to say that someone does not care at all about something: What do I care? It’s your responsibility now!7as if I cared! spoken used to say that something is not important to you at all: As if I cared whether he comes with us or not!8for all somebody cares spoken used when you are angry that someone does not seem concerned about someone or something: We could be starving for all they care!9not care to do something old-fashioned to not like doing something: She doesn’t care to spend much time with her relatives. I wouldn’t care to meet him in a dark alley! I’ve experienced more reorganizations than I care to remember (=a lot of them).10any ... you care to name/mention any thing of a particular kind: Virtually any piece of equipment you care to name can be hired these days.11would you care to do something? spoken formal used to ask someone politely whether they want to do something: Would you care to join us for dinner?THESAURUStake care of somebody (also look after somebody especially British English) to make sure a child or an old or sick person is safe and has the things they need: · I have to look after my little brother.· Taking care of a baby is hard work.· She is taking care of her grandmother while her grandfather is in hospital.care for somebody to take care of someone. Care for somebody is less common and more formal than take care of/look after somebody: · He was cared for by a team of nurses.· Caring for an elderly relative can be very rewarding.nurse to look after someone who is ill: · He nursed his wife through a long illness.· The monks nursed him back to health (=looked after him until he was well again).babysit to look after children in the evening while their parents go out somewhere: · I’ll ask Jane to babysit on Wednesday night.· He used to babysit for Mary when she worked nights.mind British English to look after a child while their parents are not there, especially for a short time: · Will you mind the baby while I go to the shop?care for somebody/something phrasal verb1to look after someone who is not able to look after themselves SYN take care of: He thanked the nurses who had cared for him. The children are well cared for.2to do things that keep something in good condition: Instructions on caring for your new sofa are included.3would you care for something? spoken formal used to ask someone politely if they would like something: Would you care for another drink?4not care for somebody/something formal to not like someone or something: I don’t much care for his parents.