care

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Editorial note

What scares me more are the ones that are visibly on the chopping block.

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Quick take

the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something; "no medical care was required"; "the old car needs constant attention"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of care gathered in one view.

noun

the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something; "no medical care was required"; "the old car needs constant attention"

noun

judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger; "he exercised caution in opening the door"; "he handled the vase with care"

noun

an anxious feeling; "care had aged him"; "they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for care.

noun

the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something; "no medical care was required"; "the old car needs constant attention"

noun

judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger; "he exercised caution in opening the door"; "he handled the vase with care"

See also: caution, precaution, forethought

noun

an anxious feeling; "care had aged him"; "they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction"

noun

a cause for feeling concern; "his major care was the illness of his wife"

noun

attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard"

See also: charge, tutelage, guardianship

noun

activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; "he wrote the manual on car care"

verb

feel concern or interest; "I really care about my work"; "I don't care"

verb

provide care for; "The nurse was caring for the wounded"

verb

prefer or wish to do something; "Do you care to try this dish?"; "Would you like to come along to the movies?"

verb

be in charge of, act on, or dispose of; "I can deal with this crew of workers"; "This blender can't handle nuts"; "She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old"

verb

be concerned with; "I worry about my grades"

Example sentences

What scares me more are the ones that are visibly on the chopping block.

Honestly I don't care if she spends her nights and weekends caring for orphans and war widows.

None of the ones who you care about will hold it against you -- "this is the nature of the business we have chosen.

I don't care who the company is, or how trustworthy you think they are: avoid giving third parties credentials to your inbox.

I honestly don't even care if the guy said, "I'd fork his repo" in that typical, suggestive tone-of-voice.

Paltalk exercises extreme care to protect and secure users’ data, only responding to court orders as required to by law.

You don't have to be scared: this is routine and, while it doesn't feel like it, you're actually in very good position, both absolutely and relative to many other people.

If we really cared about benchmark performance over anything else we would have dealt with the locking issues earlier so multi-threaded benchmarks would be better.

We need to add a new rule to the political rulebook that she's playing by. Ending her career is necessary to send a lesson to every other prosecutor who sees a guy like Aaron the way a housecat sees a cornered rat.

I need a strong, material answer from Google on this question long before a few dollar bills become the important matter of distinction.~~~I'm sorry if I come off as scaremongering.

I think we should care more about women earning 77 cents on the dollar and having an unfairly hard time recovering their career progress after maternity than about an occasional dongle joke.

There are several high profile AWS customers to pick from, but the obvious customer to start with is Netflix: they care about GCE's putative differentiators of price and performance -- and Amazon is a mortal threat to Netflix as a competitor, which should give some boardroom-level urgency to the discussion.

But in a Europe coming out of feudalism where they were trying to define national loyalties and borders, worried about losing territory to the neighboring country, worried about all sorts of things that look foolish from a modern perspective, well, if Jews weren't going to care if they were Polish or Russian, that was a huge problem.