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care Definition

care (ker)

noun

    1. a troubled or burdened state of mind; worry; concern
    2. a cause of such a mental state
  2. close attention or careful heed to drive with care
  3. a liking or regard (for) to show no care for others
  4. charge; protection; custody left in a friend's care
  5. something to watch over or attend to; a responsibility

Etymology: ME < OE caru, sorrow < IE base *ĝar-, cry out, scream > L garrulus, garrulous, Goth kara, care, Ger kar-, in karfreitag, Good Friday

intransitive verb cared, caring car′·ing

  1. to have objection, worry, regret, etc.; mind do you care if I go?
  2. to feel concern or interest to care about others
  3. to feel love or a liking (for)
  4. to take charge of; look after; provide (for)
  5. to wish (for); want do you care for more pie?

transitive verb

  1. to feel concern about or interest in I don't care what you did
  2. to wish or desire do you care to eat now?
care Idioms

could care less

Etymology: corruption of phr. couldn't care less

Informal feel(s) the least possible degree of interest, sympathy, etc.

have a care

to be careful
also take care

(in) care of

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at the address of

take care of

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  1. to have charge of or be responsible for; look after; attend to
  2. to provide for; protect against trouble, want, etc.
CARE Definition

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care Synonyms

care

n.

  1. Careful conduct

    heed, concern, caution, close attention, consideration, regard, thoughtfulness, forethought, heedfulness, precaution, wariness, vigilance, watchfulness, watching, attending, solicitude, diligence, meticulousness, fastidiousness, nicety, pains, application, conscientiousness, thought, discrimination, carefulness, scrupulousness, exactness, particularity, prudence, circumspection, oversight, watch, concentration; see also attention 2, prudence.

    Antonyms carelessness*, neglect*, negligence. *

  2. A troubled state of mind

    concern, worry, solicitude, anxiety, interest, chagrin, distress, bother, perplexity, trouble, disturbance, unhappiness, sorrow, grief, aggravation, fretfulness, stress, tribulation, responsibility, strain, pressure, vexation, perturbation, fear, oppression, uneasiness, exasperation, annoyance, misgiving, anguish, foreboding, apprehension, discomposure, pins and needles*, stew*, sweat*, fret*. *

    Antonyms calm, peace, indifference*.

  3. Custody

    supervision, guardianship, keeping, charge; see administration 1, custody 1.

  4. A cause of worry or concern

    problem, concern, trial, trouble, worry, bother, tribulation, responsibility, strain, load, onus, burden, encumbrance, nuisance, charge, incubus, hindrance, handicap, impediment; see also sense 2, affliction, difficulty 2, misfortune 1, 2, trouble 2.

care suggests a weighing down of the mind, as by apprehension or great responsibility worn out by the cares of the day; concern suggests mental uneasiness over someone or something in which one has an affectionate interest I feel concern for their welfare; solicitude implies concerned thoughtfulness, often excessive apprehension, for the welfare, safety, or comfort of another she stroked his head with great solicitude; worry suggests an actively troubled state of mind, esp. over some anticipated problem his chief worry was lack of money; anxiety suggests an apprehensive or uneasy feeling with less mental activity than worry, often over some indefinite but anticipated evil she viewed the world situation with anxiety

take care<strong> or </strong>have a care<strong>

be careful, be cautious, beware, heed; see mind 3, watch out.

take care of

protect, attend to, be responsible for, look after; see guard 2, manage 1.

care Synonyms

care

v.

  1. To be concerned

    be interested, feel concern, trouble, mind, regard, attend, worry, fret, object, disapprove, give a damn, give a hang, give a hoot*; see also bother 1, consider 1.

  2. To be careful

    be cautious, look out for, be on guard, watch out, be aware of, heed, take precautions; see also mind 3.

care Law Definition

n

  1. Serious attention, concern, interest, or regard.
  2. In negligence law, the level of caution and prudence demanded in the conduct of a person in a given situation. The appropriate level is determined by measuring the potential dangers in the particular situation, the risk that the person’s actions might bring the risk to fruition, and the possible ways of minimizing or eliminating the risk. In some situations, the level of care owed is determined by statute. See also reasonable man, malpractice, and negligence.
degree of care
The level of care to be exercised in a particular situation.
due care
  1. A phrase used to describe the level of care that an ordinarily reasonable, intelligent, and prudent person would use under the same or similar circumstances. For example, “Smith’s failure to exercise due care before the accident constitutes negligence.” Depending upon the seriousness of the particular situation and the known risks, due care may be reasonable care or a higher or lower degree of care.
  2. See reasonable care.
highest degree of care
The highest degree of care that a very attentive, watchful, and cautious individual would exercise when dealing with a particular situation. Among other things, this is the degree of care that trustees and other fiduciaries are required to exercise when carrying out their fiduciary duties. Also called extraordinary care and highest degree of care. See also breach.
ordinary care
See reasonable care.
reasonable care
The degree of care that an ordinarily reasonable, intelligent, and prudent person utilizing diligence and good judgment would exercise or reasonably be expected to utilize under similar circumstances. Also called due care and ordinary care.
care Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • take: Pick early in the day, taking care not to bruise the delicate blooms.

Used with why or when

  • who: I don't care who for, just do.

Adjective modifier

  • primary: The goal of primary care has to be the promotion of good health.
  • pastoral: Cells are the way we organize pastoral care within the church.
  • social: The LA officer must convene any meeting with social care straight away.
  • residential: Typically, fees are in excess of £ 500 per week for residential care.
  • medical: His website gives details of the medical care he provides, with a map to help people find his consulting rooms.
  • intensive: Going home that evening, Gordon is knocked down by a treacle lorry and ends up in intensive care.

Modifies a noun

  • trust: Local primary care trusts, in implementing NICE guidance, are under an obligation to balance their budgets.
  • home: CASE HISTORY: For the past two years Ashley has been living in a residential care home some distance from his family home.
  • professional: For health care professionals, a way of giving patients a good start in learning to self-manage their diabetes.
  • provider: Consider getting a second opinion from another health care provider.
  • worker: Home care workers who provide this support have differing roles too.
  • setting: If the parents are away for longer than 2 hours then the care setting must be registered with OFSTED.

Noun used with modifier

  • health: A health care children of working policy last year.
  • nursing: Care homes with nursing offer support for people whose illness or disability means that they need nursing care on a regular basis.
  • respite: Impact on the budgets which provide both home care support to parents, and respite care, and respite care providers.
  • customer: She has joined the Cygnus team to help Regina with customer care.
  • skin: They should be looked upon as devices providing a complimentary and synergistic support to other methods of skin care or conventional skin treatments.
  • diabetes: A discussion forum for people living with diabetes and those involved in diabetes care in the UK.
care Quotes

He handles symbolism rather like an Olympic weight lifter, raising it with agonizing care, brandishing it with a tiny grunt of triumph, then dropping it with a terrible clang.

—Nightingale, Benedict

If I'd known I was gonna live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

—Blake, EubieJames Hubert

Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

—Milton,John

Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day.

—Gray,Thomas

The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly.

—Field, Frank

My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done.

—Elizabeth I

As I grow older and older, And totter towards the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

—Sayers, Dorothy L(eigh)

His trust was with the eternal to be deemed Equal in strength, and rather than be less Cared not to be at all; with that care lost Went all his fear.

—Milton,John

In Baxter's view, the care of external goods should only lie on the shoulders of the'saint like a light cloak, which can be thrown aside at any moment.' But fate decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage.

—Weber, Max

He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Joy shivers in the corner where she knits And Conscience always has the rocking-chair, Cheerful as when she tortured into fits The first cat that was ever killed by Care.

—Robinson, Edwin Arlington

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With dark forgetting of my care return. And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth: Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn Without the torment of the night's untruth.

—Daniel, Samuel

'Be thine despair and sceptred care; To triumph, and to die, are mine.' He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.

—Gray,Thomas

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

—Eisenhower, Dwight D(avid)

   To preserve a trading state from decline, the greatest care must be taken, to support a perfect balance between the hands employed in work and the demand for their labour.

—Steuart (later Denham), SirJames

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that art is long. Success is in the silences, Though fame is in the song.

—Carman, (William) Bliss

   Nothing can make me madder than lawyers who don't care about others.

—Reno,Janet

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?

—Davies,W(illiam) H(enry)

Iwasneat, clean, shaved and sober, and Ididn'tcare who knew it.

—Chandler, Raymond

Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for.

—Halifax, George Savile, 1st Marquis of

Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair.

—Blake,William

The people which ceases to care for its literary inheritance becomes barbaric; the people which ceases to produce literature ceases to move in thought and sensibility.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

   To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of. There's the respect must give us pause: Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

—Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens

They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway-share; They charmed it with smiles and soap.

—Dodgson

If we domore with less, ourresponsewill be adequateto take care of everybody.

—Fuller, R(ichard) Buckminster

Take caretoget what youlike or youwill be forcedto like what you get.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Rose of all Roses,Rose of all the World! The tall thought-woven sails, that flap unfurled Above the tide of hours, trouble the air, And God's bell buoyed to be the water's care.

—Yeats,W(illiam) B(utler)

A certain sort of friendship soon arose between the Fans and me.We each recognized that we belonged to that same section of thehumanrace with whom it isbetter to drink than to fight.We knew we would each have killed the other, if sufficient inducement were offered, and so we took a certain amount of care that the inducement should not arise.

—Kingsley, Mary Henrietta

Ye banks and braes o' bonie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair; How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary fu'o'care!

—Burns, Robert

With what nice care equivalents are given, How just, how bountiful, the hand of Heaven.

—Wordsworth,William