| AFTERCARE | • aftercare n. (Medicine) The care given to a patient during recovery from an operation or after hospitalization. • aftercare n. (Business, frequently attributive) Services and support offered to a customer for the goods or service… • aftercare n. Emotional support offered by the programme makers to a person who has appeared on a stressful talk show, etc. |
| BACCARE | • baccare interj. (Obsolete) Stand back! give place! • BACCARE interj. (Shakespeare) back! stand back!, also BACKARE. |
| CARE | • care n. (Obsolete) Grief, sorrow. • care n. Close attention; concern; responsibility. • care n. Worry. |
| CHILDCARE | • childcare n. (Uncountable) The act, practice, or occupation of supervising and taking care of young children. • childcare n. (Countable) A place where young children are supervised while away from their parents or guardians. • CHILDCARE n. care of children, esp. as professionally provided. |
| DAYCARE | • daycare n. Daytime supervision, usually of children. • day␣care n. Alternative form of daycare. • DAYCARE n. care for children and disabled adults during the day. |
| DEATHCARE | • deathcare n. The provision of products and services for the burial or cremation of the dead. • DEATHCARE adj. of, relating to, or providing products or services for the burial or cremation of the dead. |
| DECARE | • decare n. A unit of surface area equal to 10 ares (that is, 1,000 square metres, 0.10 hectares, or approximately 0.25 acres). • DECARE n. a measure equal to ten ares, also DEKARE. |
| DENTICARE | • denticare n. (Canada, medicine) Dentistry subsidized through the medicare system. • DENTICARE n. a plan for providing dental care funded by some provincial governments. |
| ELDERCARE | • eldercare n. Care for elderly people. • ELDERCARE n. care of the elderly. |
| HEALTHCARE | • healthcare n. Alternative spelling of health care. • health-care n. Alternative spelling of health care. • health␣care n. The prevention, treatment, and management of illness or the preservation of mental and physical well-being… |
| JACARE | • jacare n. Alternative form of yacare. • JACARE n. (Tupi) the caiman. |
| JUDICARE | • JUDICARE n. government-paid legal services. |
| LIFECARE | • lifecare n. (US) The care of elderly people within a dedicated community after their retirement and usually up until their death. • LIFECARE n. housing and health services for the elderly. |
| MEDICARE | • medicare n. (Canada) The Canadian public health insurance system. • Medicare prop.n. (US) The system of government subsidies for health care for the elderly and disabled. • Medicare prop.n. (Australia) The publicly funded universal health care system, operated by the government authority Medicare Australia. |
| PHARMACARE | • pharmacare n. (Canada, medicine) Public insurance covering all or some of the cost of pharmaceuticals. |
| RICERCARE | • ricercare n. Alternative form of ricercar. • RICERCARE n. any of various contrapuntal instrumental forms esp. of the 16th and 17th centuries, also RICERCAR, RICERCATA. |
| SCARE | • scare n. A minor fright. • scare n. A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread. • scare n. A device or object used to frighten. |
| SKINCARE | • skincare n. The care and treatment of the skin, especially of the face. • SKINCARE n. care of the skin using cosmetics. |
| SUNCARE | • suncare n. The branch of skincare dealing with protection against the effects of sunlight. • SUNCARE n. protection of the skin from damage by the sun. |