carenoun
uk/keər/us/ker/care noun (PROTECTION)
B2 [ U ] the process of protecting someone or something and providing what that person or thing needs:
[ U ] used as a combining form:
B1 to protect someone or something and provide the things that that person or thing needs:
Children who are in care or who have been taken/put into care are not living with their natural parents but instead with a national or local government organization or another family:
a system in which people with mental illness or reduced mental ability are allowed to continue living in their own homes, with treatment and help, and are not kept in hospital
More examples
- Antenatal clinics provide care for pregnant women.
- These nurses specialize in the care of the dying.
- Babies need constant care.
- The standard of care at our local hospital is excellent.
- Nurseries are responsible for the children in their care.
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Protection and protectors
- aegis
- auspices
- bailiff
- bandobast
- beefeater
- buffer
- conservation
- guardian
- homeland security
- janitor
- keeper
- minder
- night watchman
- preservation
- ranger
- self-protection
- sentinel
- shield
- warden
- watchman
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care noun (ATTENTION)
B1 [ U ] serious attention, especially to the details of a situation or thing:
More examples
- They took care to be as tactful as possible.
- She took a lot of care over the wording of her speech.
- You need to take more care with your handwriting.
- Take care that you get there on time.
- Make sure he takes care if he insists on going up that ladder.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Paying attention and being careful
- attention
- attention span
- be good, and if you can't be good, be careful idiom
- be on (your) guard idiom
- cautious
- centre
- eye
- focus
- handle/treat sb with kid gloves idiom
- hang
- hang on/upon sth
- have a care idiom
- have/keep your ear to the ground idiom
- middle
- take note of sth idiom
- the/a glare of sth idiom
- tread carefully/gently/lightly idiom
- walk
- walk on eggs/eggshells idiom
- zoom
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care noun (DEAL WITH)
C1 to deal with something:
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Dealing with things or people
- attend to sb/sth
- beard the lion (in his/her den) idiom
- come up against sth
- come/get to grips with sth idiom
- confront
- cut
- firefight
- firefighting
- get sth in
- inherit
- jump-start
- overcome
- reckon
- reckon with sb/sth
- see about sth
- see to sth/sb
- set about sth
- square
- turn
- weather
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care noun (WORRY)
C2 [ C or U ] a feeling of worry or anxiety:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Anxiety and worry - general words
- agitation
- angst
- apprehension
- consternation
- discomfit
- discomfort
- nerve
- oppression
- overwork
- panic attack
- perturbation
- preoccupation
- restive
- strain
- tizzy
- trepidation
- uneasiness
- vexation
- willie
- yip
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Idiom(s)
careverb [ I ]
uk/keər/us/ker/care verb [ I ] (WORRY)
B1 to think that something is important and to feel interested in it or upset about it:
used to emphasize rudely that you are not interested in or worried about something or someone:
used to say that you are not interested in or worried about what someone else is doing:
used to say that you are not interested in or worried about something that has happened or that someone has said:
used to emphasize rudely that you do not think something is important:
More examples
- "I don't care - you choose, " he said, with an airy wave of the hand.
- "I don't care what you think", she flung (back) at him.
- You could be the Queen of England, for all I care - you're not coming in here without a ticket.
- I don't care about fashion, I dress how I please.
- I don't care if he likes it or not - I'm coming!
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Excited, interested and enthusiastic
- aflutter
- agog
- all of a flutter idiom
- amped
- animated
- be as high as a kite idiom
- delirious
- exhilarated
- fanatical
- fascinated
- fasten
- fasten on/upon sth
- flushed
- flutter
- overheated
- overzealous
- passionate
- pop-eyed
- potty
- sniff
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care verb [ I ] (WANT)
formal used in polite offers and suggestions:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Wanting things
- ache for sth
- acquisitive
- ambitious
- angle
- angle for sth
- aspirant
- fancy
- finger
- hang the cost/expense idiom
- hanker after/for sth
- have your eye on sth idiom
- hunger
- hunger after/for sth
- pine
- set your sights on sth idiom
- shook
- sight
- sth is calling you idiom
- straw
- tempt
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