cares

Verb

care (third-person singular simple present cares, present participle caring, simple past and past participle cared)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about).
   • She doesn’t care what you think.
2. (formal, intransitive, polite) To want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards or interested in.
   • Would you care for another slice of cake?
3. (broadly, informal, intransitive) To be affected by, to treat as relevant for a subsequent course of action.
   • An event aggregator facilitates a fire-and-forget model of communication. The object triggering the event doesn’t care if there are any subscribers. It just fires the event and moves on.2013, Addy Osmani, Developing Backbone.js Applications, page 175
4. (intransitive) (with for) To look after or look out for.
   • Young children can learn to care for a pet.
5. (Appalachia, intransitive) To mind; to object.
   • After introducing herself, the therapist then asked the patient if it would be all right to do the exercises which the doctor had ordered for her. The patient would response, "Well, I don't care to." For several days, the therapist immediately left the room and officially recorded that the patient...2006, Grace Toney Edwards, JoAnn Aust Asbury, Ricky L. Cox, A Handbook to Appalachia: An Introduction to the Region, Univ. of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, page 108

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