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caremonger

caremonger noun: one involved in caremongering.

Noun

caremonger (plural caremongers)

  1. One involved in caremongering.
    • It’s a Tuesday night in the hushed streets of Durham Region, and he’s heading to the second floor to meet a fellow volunteer—another “caremonger” in the grassroots effort to bring food and necessities to the isolated and quarantined.[…]Dorothy McFarlane, 54, reached out to the Oshawa caremongers on...2020 March 21, David Venn, “The 'caremongers' getting food and essentials to the country's most vulnerable”, in Maclean’s
    • So, what is caremongers’ motto? “No matter how big or small, please out to us and ask us for help.”2020 March 22, STP Team, “Mahita Nagaraj founder of Caremongers India is an inspiration in times of COVID 19”, in SheThePeople

Examples of caremonger in a sentence

  • Anonymous 'caremongers' say they want supply truck drivers to know how appreciated they are2020 March 28, Mackenzie Scott, “'Thanks for the food': Inuvik, N.W.T., residents thank truckers with signs on highway”, in CBC.ca:
  • Consider joining a “Caremonger” Facebook group in your area and help a vulnerable member of your community with some of their chores.2020 April/May, Boulevard, page 56:
  • Crush caremongers[…]While everyone practiced safe social distancing at home, the Crush team contracted a new viral trend: CAREMONGERING!2020 spring/summer, Crush Magazine, page 19:
  • When one member found the refugees in the mountains, too far from any town and begging for water and help, he brought Jeeps full of supplies, donated by other caremongers.2021, Lauren McKeon, “Communities Come Together”, in Women of the Pandemic: Stories from the Frontlines of COVID-19, McClelland & Stewart...

Forms of caremonger

pluralcaremongers

Origin of caremonger

From care + monger, by analogy with scaremonger.

Questions about caremonger

What does caremonger mean?
Caremonger means one involved in caremongering.
How do you use caremonger in a sentence?
Anonymous 'caremongers' say they want supply truck drivers to know how appreciated they are
What part of speech is caremonger?
Caremonger is a noun.
What is the plural of caremonger?
The plural of caremonger is caremongers.

Words near caremonger in the dictionary

  1. Carelock
  2. Carelocks
  3. Carels
  4. caremad
  5. Careman
  6. caremonger
  7. caremongering
  8. caremongers
  9. caren
  10. carena
  11. carenage

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: caremonger (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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