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▸ noun: (informal) Anyone performing this role, regardless of training or profession.
▸ noun: A medical worker performing this role, typically someone trained to provide such care but having credentials and rank below a doctor or physician assistant.
▸ noun: (healthcare) A medical worker, such as a registered nurse, having training, credentials, and rank above a nurse assistant.
▸ noun: A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s children.
▸ noun: (figurative) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.
▸ noun: (horticulture) A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
▸ noun: (nautical) A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
▸ noun: A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
▸ noun: (archaic) A wet nurse.
▸ verb: (transitive) To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.
▸ verb: (transitive) To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.
▸ verb: (transitive) To tend gently and with extra care.
▸ verb: (transitive) To manage or oversee (something) with care and economy.
▸ verb: (transitive, informal) To drink (a beverage) slowly, so as to make it last.
▸ verb: (transitive, figuratively) To cultivate or persistently entertain (an attitude, usually negative) in one's mind; to brood or obsess over.
▸ verb: (transitive) To hold closely to one's chest.
▸ verb: (transitive, billiards) To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.
▸ noun: A nurse shark or dogfish.
▸ noun: A surname.
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