carea

Noun

care (countable and uncountable, plural cares)

1. Close attention; concern; responsibility.
   • Care should be taken when holding babies.
2. Worry.
   • I don’t have a care in the world.
3. (uncountable) Maintenance, upkeep.
   • dental care
4. (uncountable) The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).
   • The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 10
5. (UK, uncountable) The state of being cared for by others.
   • in care
6. The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
   • Right sorrowfully mourning her bereaved cares.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 17

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