care (original) (raw)
care noun (PROTECTION)
take care of someone/something
take good care Take good care of that girl of yours, Patrick - she's very special.
in care UK (also take/put into care)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
care noun (DEAL WITH)
care noun (WORRY)
Idioms
care verb [I] (WORRY)
care about She's never cared very much about her appearance.
care how I don't care how much it costs, just buy it.
Your parents are only doing this because they care about (= love) you.
I couldn't care less C1 UK informal (also US I could care less)
"Mike's really fed up about it." "I couldn't care less."
for all I care informal
You can go to the match with Paula, for all I care.
as if I care informal
He said he didn't approve of what I'd done, as if I cared.
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- "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!
care verb [I] (WANT)
care for Would you care for a drink?
Phrasal verbs
(Definition of care from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
care | American Dictionary
care noun (HELP)
care noun (ATTENTION)
Idiom
care verb (WORRY)
[ I ] I really don’t care if we go or not (= It doesn’t matter to me).
care verb (WANT)
Phrasal verbs
(Definition of care from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of care
care
On average, comfort care plans were put in place 9 days prior to death.
It developed plans to offer medical care, hospital treatment, electricity, and water trucking.
Tables 3 and 4 detail the eight most frequently specified services in the care plans.
Some medical specialty societies already are recognized as proponents of standards of care by health plans.
For the sake of quality standards and efficiency, generic plans of care are formulated for patients that are not responsive to individual circumstances.
No call to care, finally, could be too mundane; what could be more ordinary than peeling an egg?
An ordinary industrial robot hanging over the workcell suspended by an iron portal takes care of hexapod translocations.
The impact of _care_-giving on _care_-givers : factors associated with the psychological well-being of people supporting a dementing relative in the community.
A systematic care program for bipolar disorder significantly reduces risk of mania over 12 months.
This was reinforced by the low priority given to public health work at all levels within the organization and by primary care team colleagues.
This reinforces the importance of the problem in countries without well organized health care or without wide access of the entire population to such care.
In particular, implementation of regulations in the private sector should be taken as a policy opportunity to improve the delivery of health care.
This includes the way that aspects of health care are thought about and represented.
This is a large professional group in primary care and was not adequately represented in the questionnaire survey.
Whereas oncologists and primary care physicians overwhelmingly reported having working relationships with hospice, only 57% of cardiologists reported having those contacts.
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