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Childcare services tending to children after the school day.
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Care given to an infant by an animal that is not the infant's parent.
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An animal that provides allocare to an infant.
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The provision of infant care from someone other than the mother.
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(literally) A party or similar event at which aluminum household items are given, as for a wedding.
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The business of keeping a baby farm.
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A party celebrating the pending or recent birth of a child, involving guests giving gifts (typically babycare items) to the parent(s).
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(rare) Alternative spelling of babysitter [A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians.]
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Alternative spelling of babysitting [The work of a babysitter; the care of children in the temporary absence of their parents or guardians.]
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The kidnapping of a baby.
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Alternative spelling of babycare [The act of supervising and taking care of babies.]
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A childminder or babysitter.
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Alternative spelling of babysitting [The work of a babysitter; the care of children in the temporary absence of their parents or guardians.]
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The act of supervising and taking care of babies.
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A period of calm spent together by a newborn baby and its parents.
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(transitive, intransitive) To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.
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A person who cares for one or more babies or children for a short period of time in place of their legal guardians.
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(idiomatic, social sciences, law, public policy) An informal method for assessing the maturity, reliability, or probity of a person, inviting one to judge whether one would entrust this person with the care of one's own children.
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The work of a babysitter; the care of children in the temporary absence of their parents or guardians.
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A group of families who share the task of babysitting on a rotational, or other equalising basis.
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The act of wearing a child, carrying them close to the body.
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A person with whom one shares a bed.
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An ancient Jewish ritual involving a wedding between two mourners that takes place in a graveyard, intended to obtain help from the dead in ending an epidemic.
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(Lojban grammar) The simplest kind of Lojban sentence, consisting of a selbri and some sumti, which fill in places in the selbri's "place structure". (More complex sentences can be formed by combining two or more bridi with conjunctions.)
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One sitting near or nearby.
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A woman employed to look after the youngest children at a summer camp.
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Alternative spelling of caregiver [(Canada, US, Philippines) A carer.]
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One who is cared for; one who receives care.
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(Canada, US, Philippines) A carer.
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One who has previously been in foster care.
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(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Someone who regularly looks after another person, either as a job or often through family responsibilities.
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Work that involves caring for others, whether paid or not.
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To babysit for (take care of) a cat.
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One who acts as babysitter for a cat in the owner's absence.
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(American spelling) Alternative spelling of child labour [(British spelling, Canadian spelling) Work performed by a minor that is prohibited by statute law, or under terms and conditions considered inhumane.]
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(British spelling, Canadian spelling) Work performed by a minor that is prohibited by statute law, or under terms and conditions considered inhumane.
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Alternative form of childminder [A person employed to look after other people's children while they are away; a babysitter.]
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Alternative form of childmind [To look after children while their parents are absent.]
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One who gives birth to a child.
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(countable) A place where young children are supervised while away from their parents or guardians.
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One who works in childcare.
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To look after children while their parents are absent.
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A person employed to look after other people's children while they are away; a babysitter.
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One who rears (cares for and raises) a child.
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The raising of children; parenting.
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(medicine) a nurse working in a team which provides health care to patients within their own homes.
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An animal pet; a companion animal.
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(Canada, Ontario) A child or youth who has been placed in foster care without access to his or her natural family for the purpose of adoption
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Alternative form of daycare [Daytime supervision, usually of children.]
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Daytime supervision, usually of children.
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(medicine) a senior nurse leading teams of community nurses which provide health care to patients within their own homes.
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A trained support person, who usually has doula training, who provides emotional, physical and practical assistance to a pregnant woman or couple before, during or after childbirth.
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Alternative form of doula [A trained support person, who usually has doula training, who provides emotional, physical and practical assistance to a pregnant woman or couple before, during or after childbirth.]
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A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand, distinguished from a wet nurse, who suckles it.
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A nurse who takes care of a baby, but does not breastfeed
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To feed, attend, and bring up without suckling.
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A formal system by which a child is cared for, in a foster family, by people other than its own parents, but without being adopted
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The act of caring for another human being or animal.
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Alternative form of foster care [A formal system by which a child is cared for, in a foster family, by people other than its own parents, but without being adopted]
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Alternative form of GOAT [(UK, politics, informal) A member of the "government of all the talents" proposed by British prime minister Gordon Brown.]
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(chiefly UK, healthcare) A healthcare professional engaged in offering public health advice to people in their homes.
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A health care professional who provides care in a person's own home.
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(historical) A person who was sent as a child from the United Kingdom to one of its colonies, under a migration scheme founded in 1869.
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The act of supervising and taking care of infants.
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(UK, education) A childcare worker who monitors a child's development and participation in activities and discusses these with the child's parents or carer.
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(archaic) The skill or practice of caring for children in a kindergarten.
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A child who is given a key to the home and is expected to remain at home alone (without adult supervision until the parents return from work).
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(transitive) To introduce (animals) together for the purpose of breeding.
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(obsolete) One who is taken care of, such as a pauper child in the care of private person; a ward.
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(UK, endearing) Synonym of nursemaid.
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(intransitive, transitive) To serve as a nanny.
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(Britain, dated) A nurse who periodically checked schoolchildren's hair for lice.
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Obsolete form of nurse. [(archaic) A wet nurse.]
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Obsolete form of nurse. [(archaic) A wet nurse.]
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A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.
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(medicine) A professional nursing designation recognized in some jurisdictions, denoting an individual who is fully qualified as a nurse and who has additional qualifications and authorization to provide diagnoses and/or treatments, including writing prescriptions .
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A sadistic, controlling woman, especially a nurse, in a position of authority.
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Alternative form of nurse practitioner [(medicine) A professional nursing designation recognized in some jurisdictions, denoting an individual who is fully qualified as a nurse and who has additional qualifications and authorization to provide diagnoses and/or treatments, including writing prescriptions .]
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The world or sphere of nurses.
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A young woman employed to look after a baby or young child.
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(colloquial) To care for or look after.
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A man employed to care for children.
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A place where the pre-school children of working parents are supervised during the day; a crèche, a daycare centre.
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(UK) Someone trained to care for small children; nanny.
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(rare) A nurseryman or nurserywoman.
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(archaic) A nurse who looks after people who are unwell.
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Alternative form of nursie [(childish, mainly as a term of address) nurse]
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(childish, mainly as a term of address) nurse
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(now rare, archaic) To nurture, train, raise (a person).
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Alternative spelling of nursie [(childish, mainly as a term of address) nurse]
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(transitive) To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating.
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(US) Services provided by an assistant to a nurse, such as catering and clerical work, allowing the nurse to focus on the medical aspects.
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One who acts as babysitter for a pet in the owner's absence.
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A child who attends a playgroup.
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A person who is certified to provide custodial care such as help in walking, bathing, and feeding.
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The rearing of young children, conceived of as an art or science.
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Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity
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A professional nurse who is a licensed graduate of a university or college of nursing who has successfully passed an examination such as NCLEX-RN.
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A person who has to look after both young children and elderly relatives.
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The position of having to look after both young children and elderly relatives.
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A nurse; a person employed to take care of somebody who is unwell.
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To take care of children in the absence of their parents; to work as a babysitter for someone.
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One employed to watch or tend something; a babysitter, housesitter, petsitter, etc.
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(Canada, historical) The government practice of forcibly taking Aboriginal children away from their families to be brought up in foster care or adopted into white families, which occurred from the late 1950s until the 1980s.
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A nurse or aide assigned to provide one-on-one observation of a patient.
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(countable) A social event for men held in honor of a groom on the eve of his wedding, attended by male friends of the groom; sometimes a fundraiser.
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A remarkably capable and energetic nanny.
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An exceptionally talented or successful medical nurse.
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(UK, dated, slang) At Winchester College, a new boy placed under the care of older pupils.
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To mate; used of a ram mating with a ewe.
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The raising or training of a child.
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(figuratively, by extension) Someone who treats someone else with excessive care.
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Alternative spelling of wet nurse [A woman hired to suckle another woman's child.]
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Alternative spelling of wet nurse [(transitive) To act as a wet nurse (in either sense).]
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A crèche/day nursery provided by an employer on their premises for the care of employees' children.
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