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housecare

housecare noun: treatment of a patient at his or her own home.

Noun

housecare (uncountable)

  1. Treatment of a patient at his or her own home.
    • Service responses to the problems of old age couched in terms of housecare are clearly irrelevant to the needs of many older people.1987, Christina R. Victor, Old age in modern society: a textbook of social gerontology, page 254
    Synonyms:
    homecare
  2. Care and maintenance of one's home.
    • Pharmaceuticals and consumer chemicals: Includes cosmetics, housecare products, toiletries, veterinary products.1983, John M. Stopford, The world directory of multinational enterprises, 1982-83: Volume 3

Synonyms of housecare

Origin of housecare

From house + care.

Questions about housecare

What does housecare mean?
Housecare means treatment of a patient at his or her own home.
What part of speech is housecare?
Housecare is a noun.

Words near housecare in the dictionary

  1. housecall
  2. housecalled
  3. housecalling
  4. housecalls
  5. housecar
  6. housecare
  7. housecarl
  8. housecarls
  9. housecars
  10. housecat
  11. housecats

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