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carework

carework noun: work that involves caring for others, whether paid or not.

Noun

carework (uncountable)

  1. Work that involves caring for others, whether paid or not.
    • a thesis investigating whether working mothers do more carework than working fathers

Origin of carework

From care + work.

Questions about carework

What does carework mean?
Carework means work that involves caring for others, whether paid or not.
What part of speech is carework?
Carework is a noun.

Words near carework in the dictionary

  1. carets
  2. carettochelyid
  3. carettochelyids
  4. Carew
  5. careware
  6. carework
  7. careworker
  8. careworkers
  9. careworn
  10. carewornness
  11. careworthy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carework (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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