childcare

IPA: tʃˈaɪɫdkɛr

noun

  • (uncountable) The act, practice, or occupation of supervising and taking care of young children.
  • (countable) A place where young children are supervised while away from their parents or guardians.

child care

IPA: tʃˈaɪɫdkˈɛr

noun

  • Alternative form of childcare [(uncountable) The act, practice, or occupation of supervising and taking care of young children.]
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Examples of "childcare" in Sentences

    Examples of "child-care" in Sentences

    • But a child-care nurse isn't recognized under the EU's automatic recognition rules.
    • Collect all of your family's Social Security numbers and those for child-care providers.
    • An Army soldier says she failed to show up for deployment because of a child-care problem.
    • Why aren't men evaluated on traits, such as child-care involvement, that are typically associated with gender.
    • “Now it amounts to one-seventh as the cost of housing, child-care, and health-care have all risen disproportionately.”
    • “His mom comes over during the day,” she said, as casually as if she were discussing child-care arrangements for a toddler.
    • When people have enough to eat, shelter, healthcare, elder-care, child-care, employment, peacefulness, democracy -- that's when religion really starts to lose its grip.
    • It wasn't until my daughter was a few months old that it dawned on me that when the pediatricians and child-care books referred to "separation anxiety," they were referring to the baby's psyche, not to mine.
    • Women voters would control a steady and permanent majority — making, say, discriminatory health-care measures such as the Stupak Amendment and the horrible dearth of child-care options for working mothers seem untenable.

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