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caretakes

caretakes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of caretake.

Meaning of caretake

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

Questions about caretakes

What is caretakes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Caretakes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of caretake.

Words near caretakes in the dictionary

  1. caretaker governments
  2. caretaker speech
  3. caretakers
  4. caretakership
  5. caretakerships
  6. caretakes
  7. caretaking
  8. caretakings
  9. careth
  10. caretlike
  11. caretook

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caretakes (page history and authors); caretake (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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