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caretaking

/kair-tey-ker/US // ˈkɛərˌteɪ kər //UK // (ˈkɛəˌteɪkə) //

管家,管家服务,管家婆,看管

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who is in charge of the maintenance of a building, estate, etc.; superintendent.
    • : a person or group that temporarily performs the duties of an office.
    • : British. a janitor.
    • : a person who takes care of another.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : involving the temporary performance of the duties of an office: a caretaker government.

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Examples

  • Twice a week, nearly every clinical caretaker is tested with a nasal swab.

  • In the software industry, Salesforce’s Slack acquisition is exceeded only by IBM’s mega-purchase of cloud caretaker Red Hat for $34 billion in 2018.

  • He had three more occasions, while working on the extinction list, to startle caretakers with the news that they were managing catastrophically rare plants.

  • A mother in Phoenix asked for a caretaker to help her 41-year-old son at night.

  • When his 5-month-old sister began to cry, a caretaker held her out of sight of the friends and colleagues who had gathered.

  • And the caretaking is all part of the “going for a broken person” and trying to fix them.

  • To have been caretaking and managing the complicated medical issues, to be with Teddy every second, was just draining.

  • They left the woman to lock up the house and return to her caretaking, and started off up the street.

  • It was a caretaking like the sudden stilling of the tempest that came to the little household.

  • At one stroke half the labour and all the anxiety of domestic caretaking will be annihilated.

  • Best of all, she would regather during the hour not a little strength to be used later in the caretaking of her children.

  • The Convention was composed of the most orderly, caretaking and reputable of men, and the author of the draught was one of them.