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caretake

caretake verb: to look after as a caretaker.

Verb

caretake (third-person singular simple present caretakes, present participle caretaking, simple past caretook, past participle caretaken)

  1. (transitive) To look after as a caretaker.
    • "Webster wants me to caretake his place while they're away."1936, F.J. Thwaites, The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940, page 100

Forms of caretake

third-person singular presentcaretakes
present participlecaretaking
pastcaretook
past participlecaretaken

Origin of caretake

From care + take, as a back-formation from caretaker or caretaking.

Questions about caretake

What does caretake mean?
Caretake means to look after as a caretaker.
What part of speech is caretake?
Caretake is a verb.
What is the past tense of caretake?
The past tense of caretake is caretook.

Words near caretake in the dictionary

  1. caressives
  2. carest
  3. Careston
  4. caret
  5. caret notation
  6. caretake
  7. caretaken
  8. caretaker
  9. caretaker government
  10. caretaker governments
  11. caretaker speech

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