| 单词 | caretaker |
| 释义 | caretaker (once / 3474 pages) n When you work as a caretaker, you look after a house or a piece of property. The caretaker of a grand old estate might live in a small cottage on its grounds. A caretaker might make small repairs to a house, weed a property's flower gardens, or mow the lawn. Some caretakers live in the house they care for, often during an off season when its main inhabitants don't stay there. You can also use the word to mean "caregiver," a person who takes care of someone who's elderly or ill, or to refer to someone who looks after animals. WORD FAMILYcaretaker: caretakers USAGE EXAMPLESHe started working in Witschi’s laboratory, first as an animal caretaker and then as a lab technician, before enrolling in medical school in 1955. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) The estate is often nearly empty, according to law enforcement officials, inhabited year-round by just a few Russian caretakers. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) With noninvasive options exhausted and the wound still refusing to heal, the caretakers chose exploratory surgery. Los Angeles Times(Dec 20, 2016) 1n a custodian who is hired to take care of something (property or a person) Hypo|Hyper concierge a French caretaker of apartments or a hotel; lives on the premises and oversees people entering and leaving and handles mail and acts as janitor or porter sacristan, sextonan officer of the church who is in charge of sacred objects super, superintendenta caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector vergera church officer who takes care of the interior of the building and acts as an attendant (carries the verge) during ceremonies custodian, keeper, steward one having charge of buildings or grounds or animals 2n an official who performs the duties of an office temporarily he acted as a caretaker until a new president could be elected Hyper functionary, official a worker who holds or is invested with an office |
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