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care-giver

care-giver is the alternative form of caregiver.

Meaning of caregiver

Noun

caregiver (plural caregivers)

  1. (Canada, Philippines, US) A carer; a person who looks after another person.
    • The coronavirus has turned caregivers around the world into homeschoolers.2020 March 16, Matt Villano, “How ‘regular school’ parents can homeschool their kids”, in CNN
    Synonyms:
    carer
    Antonyms:
    caree

Forms of care-giver

pluralcare-givers

Questions about care-giver

What is care-giver the alternative form of?
Care-giver is the alternative form of caregiver.

Words near care-giver in the dictionary

  1. care packages
  2. Care Sunday
  3. care worker
  4. care workers
  5. care-experienced
  6. care-giver
  7. care-givers
  8. care-taking
  9. care-takings
  10. care-worn
  11. care-worthy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: care-giver (page history and authors); caregiver (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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