What does care mean

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care

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

care

I.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

antenatal care

▪ regular antenatal care

care home

Care in the Community

care label

care package

care worker

community care (=care for the sick, the old etc in their community rather than in hospital)

▪ Several voluntary organizations are involved in providing community care.

customer service/care (=serving and looking after customers)

▪ Our aim is always to raise the level of customer service.

day care centre/services/facilities

▪ subsidized day care facilities

day care

▪ subsidized day care facilities

dental treatment/care

▪ Dental care was free in the 60s.

extra care

▪ Drivers are advised to take extra care.

extreme care/caution

▪ It is necessary to use extreme caution with chemicals.

great care

▪ John always takes great care over his work.

health care (=care from doctors, nurses etc)

▪ Many Americans cannot afford even basic health care.

health care

▪ The government has promised wide-ranging health care for all.

hospital treatment/care

▪ What do older people think of hospital care?

intensive care unit

▪ The man is in the hospital’s intensive care unit.

intensive care

▪ He is still in intensive care in Bristol General Hospital.

left...in the care of

▪ She left her son in the care of a friend.

loving care

▪ the loving care with which the house has been restored

loving care

▪ What that child needs is plenty of loving care.

medical attention/treatment/care

▪ The injury required urgent medical attention.

not that I care (=I do not care)

▪ Sarah has a new boyfriend – not that I care.

primary care

▪ a primary care physician a doctor who provides primary care

primary health care

residential care

respite care

sb’s creative/caring/feminine etc side

▪ The art program is meant to bring out children’s creative side.

the caring professions (=ones that involve looking after people)

▪ A high proportion of people in the caring professions are women.

the health care system

▪ The West should be helping these countries to develop modern health care systems.

wraparound care

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

extra

▪ With Spectra or Dyneema, we have to adjust in the sleeving, and here a little extra care pays off dividends.

▪ The Senate added a $ 16 billion tobacco tax to provide extra health care funding for uninsured children.

▪ On the way down, the path can be muddy and steep and in places needs extra care.

▪ Take extra care if you are travelling.

▪ They tipped me for the extra care.

▪ We need to take extra care when talking to elderly people because they may not see or hear so well.

▪ In areas where gardens are protected and some extra care is provided, most cabbage varieties can be virtually a year-round crop.

good

▪ Others mentioned the convenience of having a booked admission date and better surroundings and care.

▪ He danced her around the room, promised to take better care of her than anyone ever had.

▪ Felicity loves it too, and probably takes far better care of it than I ever did.

▪ We know that owners take better care of homes than renters.

▪ She took good care of him.

▪ Not all good day care is so costly.

▪ We have to get him out Voice over Those who are to be brought out will receive the best of care.

▪ We want better education, better roads, and better health care, for the same tax dollar.

great

▪ George is very kind and caring and took great care over Lennie.

▪ In some stores, great care has gone into making that transformation pleasant.

▪ Reintroduction of food after elemental regimens must nevertheless be undertaken with the greatest of care irrespective of whether or not elimination diets are used.

▪ He began to weigh his words with great care, struggling to express himself as economically and clearly as possible.

▪ She wears a pink suede jacket with a studded fringe which she takes great care to hang.

▪ Taking great care where she placed her feet, she trod softly down the stairs.

▪ My choice had to be made with the greatest care and the most alert diagnostic skill.

▪ The stock must be chosen with great care.

institutional

▪ We re-interviewed those principal carers whose relatives, etc had moved to permanent institutional care by the end of one year.

▪ The avoidance of unnecessary institutional care by assessment of need for care.

▪ As we saw in Chapter 2 approximately 5 percent of those aged 65 + live in some form of institutional care.

▪ In institutional care there should be no place for such people.

▪ First is the possibility of an unnecessary increase in the number of old people consigned to institutional care.

▪ Even so, they were generally being sustained at home at a cost below that of institutional care.

▪ Only about 3-4% of all people aged 65+ are in some form of institutional care.

▪ Cases were closed when a client died, moved away, or went into permanent institutional care.

intensive

▪ Infusion of 50 to 100 mEq per 12 hours requires very close monitoring, usually in an intensive care setting.

▪ For the moment, Becky remains in intensive care, after falling from her horse on Saturday.

▪ Her son remained in guarded condition Monday in an intensive care unit.

▪ We have had public reports of a mortally ill little girl being unable to gain treatment in a paediatric intensive care unit.

▪ He was put on a life support machine in intensive care.

▪ This is not reported in the available literature on intensive care and may be a unique finding.

▪ Will he accept that there is indeed an acute shortage of intensive care beds for children?

medical

▪ There were lectures on quite advanced medical care, on intelligence-gathering, signalling and demolitions.

▪ They mix medical care and great menu variety for safe, often lifetime weight loss.

▪ Finally, such medical care will generally involve invasive drug therapy.

▪ Women detainees often get inadequate medical care.

▪ General practitioners have always had to manage and plan their businesses and are constantly adapting to changes in medical care.

▪ These include expenses for training and lost productivity, which equal and / or exceed medical care costs.

▪ With good medical care they often get better for a while.

▪ Or should they be blamed on inadequate medical care, poor diet or other environmental factors?

nursing

▪ Every nurse in the ward is responsible for promoting good nursing care.

▪ The following is an example of some cognitive objectives for teaching the nursing care of a patient recovering from heart surgery.

▪ The expected benefits of improved knowledge and nursing care by the learner can be summarised in aims and objectives.

▪ This can occur at any time but particularly when the student has been observed or supervised in her nursing care.

▪ Communication within the caring team, and the formation of nursing care plans, ensures continuity of patient care.

▪ He or she may have several diseases concurrently which will complicate nursing care.

▪ The student will learn realistic ways of ensuring good nursing care even when the workload is heavy.

▪ To develop an understanding of the psychological aspects of nursing care. 4.

patient

▪ Computer generated protocols Editor, - Richard J Lilford and colleagues show that structured methods of recording data can improve patient care.

▪ It is often the physician, as the person responsible for the activities required for patient care, who adopts this style.

▪ But better patient care is the ultimate aim.

▪ In these days of siege, psychiatrists must treat disaffection through militant group action and advocating conscientious, high-quality patient care.

▪ Criticism of the service side of training should be encouraged so improvements in student learning and patient care can be developed.

▪ The patient care records are reviewed against the established criteria.

▪ Hospitals now sell patient care including operations, X-rays, and blood tests, charging for everything.

▪ As well as acting as a support for the patient she will be gaining additional information relevant to her understanding of patient care.

personal

▪ They combined domestic, personal care, and specialist skills, taught by other professionals, such as physiotherapy, or speech therapy.

▪ The charge nurse and the nursing supervisor are the ones to talk to if there is any problem with personal care.

▪ All our residents receive a very special, personal kind of care.

▪ About 1 in 4 were in nursing and personal care facilities or offices and clinics of physicians.

▪ Looking at the evidence available, there seem to be four main principles which determine who offers personal care.

▪ For personal care the chain of complaint is: physician, charge nurse, nursing supervisor, hospital administrator, hospital director.

▪ My brief review of personal care given by relatives has stressed the theme of variation, especially by gender.

▪ The study, at a large Fortune 100 manufacturing company, focused on employees who provide personal care to an older relative.

primary

▪ However, it is possible that the clients who benefit mostly from primary care might be the nurses themselves.

▪ Medical groups often woo primary care doctors while sharply limiting the number o f specialists allowed on their referral lists.

▪ It recommends that resources for the developments in primary and community care to pump-prime and provide transitional support be secured urgently.

▪ Lahey Hitchock operates the largest physician practice in the state, employing more than 200 primary care doctors.

▪ Undergraduate students have begun to recognise the importance of primary care.

▪ Some primary care doctors' incomes have gone up slightly, and the others have seen their incomes remain steady.

▪ Thus hospital recommendations, based on discounted prices, can result in high cost commitments for primary care.

▪ Under managed care, patients are assigned to a primary care physician who determines what health services they will receive.

private

▪ A large number of private care agency customers are elderly or disabled people who are not social services clients.

▪ A private care home in my constituency accepted an elderly lady for respite care.

▪ The hon. Member for Wakefield said that he did not like private institutional care.

▪ Further moves could also be made towards increasing the two-way interaction between public and private health care sectors.

▪ Nine out of 10 directors say there should be compulsory registration of private care agencies.

▪ That also means a commitment to private residential care as much as to local authority residential care.

▪ Compensation packages for expatriates coming to Britain usually cover schooling costs, private medical care and housing costs.

▪ There are good examples of what can be done in private care.

reasonable

▪ Employees have a duty to take reasonable care in the performance of their duties.

▪ If a teacher fails to exercise reasonable care to protect his or her students from injury, the teacher is negligent.

▪ You must take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions which you can reasonably foresee would be likely to injure your neighbour.

▪ If teachers do not use reasonable care, there is a breach of duty, and they are negligent.

▪ Employees are themselves under a duty to take reasonable care not to injure others in the course of their work.

▪ The duty in the law of negligence is not a duty to exercise reasonable care to avoid risk of causing injury.

▪ As it fails to enable Alan to take reasonable care for his own safety it will not have this effect.

▪ But if Clarence had exercised reasonable care, the court would have to decide whether the Trust were at fault.

residential

▪ It is supposed to end the uncertainty surrounding the limits of control of young people in residential care.

▪ The next chapter explores social work practice where a family member begins to need residential care.

▪ Out of 174 local authorities, 97 or over half had no residential care facilities for children and 24 had no arrangements at all.

▪ Women outnumber men by three to one in residential care.

▪ Thus Southwark, which exports 70% of adults needing residential care, will not receive adequate funding to pay for future placements.

▪ Fostering breakdowns account for an increasing number of admissions to residential care.

▪ That also means a commitment to private residential care as much as to local authority residential care.

▪ Then after ten weeks in residential care a family meeting was planned.

social

▪ Key points are: The report considers key national issues under the headings of community regeneration and social and community care.

▪ Coherent planning and coordination of health and social care would be facilitated by coterminous boundaries between the two authorities.

▪ These opinions will then be borne in mind when it comes to planning future health and social care policies.

▪ Many social services staff care considerably about the inadequacies of the policies they administer.

▪ Family support services. 5. Social care planning to mobilize packages of care. 6.

▪ At what point does social care become nursing?

▪ The care of stroke patients involves a plethora of different health and social care workers.

▪ For the minority who receive social care, the characteristics are significant reminders of their individuality and diversity.

special

▪ Both groups need very special care - yet so often they are the forgotten people in our community.

▪ The brave became a great chief, and he always took special care of his colt, which became a great horse.

▪ Bright new facilities and therapies were provided, plus enlightened teaching and special care.

▪ He took special care of the remaining one, and often slept with it in the corral.

▪ Thousands upon thousands of dollars would go into special care, training, and equipment for her.

▪ One example might be where a newborn child developed an infection requiring special care, but recovered in a few days.

▪ Country roads are often narrow and winding, so drivers should take special care and slow down.

■ NOUN

child

▪ It did nothing to provide better child care for women wishing to return to work.

▪ Most of them are wealthy men whose wives raise their children. Child care is not high on their agenda.

▪ Power relationships and relationships within informal networks are vitally important in all child care work.

▪ And the state, asked to investigate, says that dressing up is an appropriate part of a child care curriculum.

▪ In this area, solicitors can specialise in matters such as child care and other areas which specifically relate to local government.

▪ Instead of hiring child care I traded it with other parents: I had a list as long as my arm.

▪ We also have vacancies in specialist departments such as medicine and child care where the appropriate qualifications and experience are essential.

▪ Fortunately, women have changed sufficiently to make child care an issue.

customer

▪ This isn't just customer care: this is better margins and hard profit.

▪ Training implies that they do not, yet nobody seems to be able to point to any deterioration in customer care.

▪ Nothing about environmental impact, customer care, or good business practices.

▪ The delegation looked at a range of hotel operations including food preparation, customer care programmes, sales and marketing and budgeting.

▪ John had high standards of customer care and quality service.

▪ He still had a lot of contacts who valued his priorities of customer care and quality.

▪ Hotels have high standards of customer care and lift maintenance organisations have to understand these requirements.

day

▪ And an information day is being planned for anyone wanting to learn more about the day care centre appeal.

▪ Child care: day care, nursery school, babysitting.

▪ You are the person who actually provides the day to day care for residents.

▪ According to industry statistics, companies lose a total of $ 3 billion a year to workers' day care problems.

▪ Full day care facilities are available on request.

▪ His vision of the future is centered on individuals: job training, access to college, day care and so forth.

▪ The State of California shall provide a child welfare building to serve as day care centres for single parents.

▪ He pledged that pensioners using the earmarked homes for short stays and for day care would be found alternative facilities.

facility

▪ Day care facilities for the mentally handicapped include what used to be known as adult training centres.

▪ We re licensed as an acute care facility.

▪ Out of 174 local authorities, 97 or over half had no residential care facilities for children and 24 had no arrangements at all.

▪ With this merger, there are concerns about what happens to the workers in these health care facilities.

▪ Full day care facilities are available on request.

▪ About 1 in 4 were in nursing and personal care facilities or offices and clinics of physicians.

▪ Meanwhile, however, the lack of adequate community care facilities has led to a campaign to save the old mental hospitals.

▪ There are no health care facilities. 7.

health

▪ The result should be health care that is more predictable and efficient.

▪ It is essential that Londoners have the same rights of access to acute health care as their provincial counterparts.

▪ Process is defined as the sequence of established activities or procedures used by providers in the delivery of health care.

▪ In order to do this health authorities must have comprehensive information about the existing use of health care.

▪ Reproductive health care, crucial to women, was, as it had ever been, slighted.

▪ In Britain for the foreseeable future the ultimate purchaser of 80% or more of health care will continue to be the Treasury.

▪ Physicians and other health care workers are trying to design a health care system.

home

▪ In-service training, weekly group meetings and monthly supervision sessions were all provided for the home care aides.

▪ Long-term nursing home care would be the only benefit not available as soon as some one became a legal California resident.

▪ In the last decade the private sector has started to develop the amount of residential and nursing home care it provided.

▪ In the last six months of 1994 we had 65 people on home care.

▪ It has become the main provider of affordable home care for the elderly.

▪ Spending most of each day in out-of-#home care is a real risk factor for a baby.

▪ The night sitter left at 7 a.m. and the home care aide was due to come at 8 a.m.

▪ The numbers of men, women and children covered by home care with 24 hour on call has doubled in a year.

hospital

▪ Products offered by service industries include hospital care, dental treatment, holiday arrangements and accountancy services, for example. 5.

▪ She still needed hospital care but certainly seemed to be getting better.

▪ She is in hospital care until the baby-swop is sorted out.

▪ The training of more specialists and the provision of more day hospital care was duly set out.

▪ A constant theme in research concerned with the hospital care of older people is the discharge from hospital back to the community.

▪ Private nursing homes have higher levels of frailty than residential homes but not usually as high as long-stay hospital care.

▪ However, hospitals can not be closed down overnight and there is a need for a more positive approach to hospital care.

order

▪ For those reasons I allow the appeal and I substitute an interim care order.

▪ I was still under a care order so the Social Services put me in a hostel.

▪ The order will terminate when the child ceases to be of compulsory school age or if a care order is made.

▪ It can make a care order, a supervision order, a s8 order and a family assistance order.

▪ It can also make a s8 order in addition to a supervision order but not a care order.

▪ The local authority asserted that the threshold conditions, under which a care order could be made, had been met.

▪ The courts must now make care orders committing children to the care of the local authority.

▪ Social workers say they never had enough evidence of maltreatment to go to court for a care order.

plan

▪ The addition of the care plan will enable service agreements to be tailored to meet the needs of the individual user.

▪ Investor-owned managed care plans routinely take 20 percent to 30 percent of premium dollars off the top for profit and administration.

▪ As part of the care plan.

▪ The products and the care plans they produce are more in-depth.

▪ Communication within the caring team, and the formation of nursing care plans, ensures continuity of patient care.

▪ Her health care plan drew fire.

▪ They must also show their HIV/AIDS services are fully integrated into their community care plans.

▪ For some people, personal care plans will be drawn up.

reform

▪ Then there is the still unworkable sum which overhangs all this budgeting: how much health care reform will cost.

▪ The goals and activities in this plan are consistent with the goals set forth in recently proposed plans for health care reform.

▪ Many general practitioners fear that the community care reforms will increase their own workload, too.

▪ Doble pointed to one prime example of poor communication between elected officials and constituents: the health care reform debate.

▪ It also examines the relation between care management and care programming and raises some questions about future developments in the light of community care reforms.

▪ A far-reaching and comprehensive strategy, carefully integrated with broader plans for health care reform, is required.

▪ In the autumn of 1991 the Bush administration showed no interest in health care reform.

▪ The debate over health care reform in 1993-94 offers a vivid example.

respite

▪ This has worked well for both permanent and respite care.

▪ Any possibility of further reductions in respite care should be strenuously resisted.

▪ Coupled with the financial implications if carers decided they could no longer shoulder this burden the case for supporting respite care becomes overwhelming.

▪ Some proposals include provision of a day centre and respite care.

▪ It briefly outlines activities such as helplines, respite care services and consultation on community care proposals.

▪ A private care home in my constituency accepted an elderly lady for respite care.

▪ It is also developing a respite care service.

▪ A carers group might help, but what about some form of respite care for both the carer and the son?

service

▪ They could not cope even with very enhanced staffing levels and very supportive community care services.

▪ To deal with illness, they fund health care services.

▪ We are entering a period of deterioration in health care services.

▪ The salons, formerly known as Toni &038; Guy, offer clients a complete hair care service and have been completely refurbished.

▪ How much is spent on health care services?

▪ And it establishes care trusts and sets out legislation on long-term care excluding nursing care from community care services.

▪ An important feature will be the investigation of the relationship between women workers and women users of primary health care services.

▪ We've already identified a need for a home care service which we aim to meet.

system

▪ This paper underlines the importance of maintaining a functional health care system even during times of political change and unrest.

▪ Whatever Congress does to fix it is likely to put severe pressures on the rest of the health care system.

▪ We can now deal with the main problems that could arise in the new community care system.

▪ That was the conclusion of a General Accounting Office report in 1992 on fraud in the health care system.

▪ Primary care physicians' experience of financial incentives in managed-care systems.

▪ Once they are enmeshed in the often-chaotic foster care system it is extraordinarily difficult to get out of it.

▪ New hair care system One of the most exciting happenings in hair and scalp care lately comes from respected trichologist Philip Kingsley.

▪ Our health care system is out of control.

take

▪ He was offering me the trip of a lifetime, and all I had to do was take care of the meals.

▪ When sanding take care not to round the sharp edges.

▪ The expert's advice today was take care.

unit

▪ From these studies we've developed criteria to identify who needs to go to a coronary care unit and who doesn't.

▪ There is a 16-bed intensive care unit and two operating rooms that can also be expanded.

▪ Mrs Carrington takes up the account from the time when her husband was admitted to the intensive care unit.

▪ Ludington plans to introduce the therapy into the transitional care unit that caters to preemies at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

▪ Facilities will include an intensive care unit and an oiled bird cleaning facility.

▪ He is in stable condition in the intensive care unit at Kaiser Medical Center in Vallejo.

▪ The second is, if there are to be intensive care units, what share of resources should they have?

▪ Her son remained in guarded condition Monday in an intensive care unit.

worker

▪ Hazards associated with heating and walking are examples of matters to which care workers must attend.

▪ Maritza started to work with the foster care workers to get her children back.

▪ The revised guidelines are expected to avoid giving care workers specific advice on how to physically restrain absconders.

▪ Social workers and other primary care workers are well placed to identify people who have long-term social difficulties and poor coping resources.

▪ Health care workers should have a tuberculin skin test at least every two years.

▪ Yet it illustrates vividly the extent of the power which may be implicit in the relationship between care worker and old person.

▪ Further information: Recruiting and employing a personal care worker by M Dunne.

■ VERB

manage

▪ The St Helens project was initiated and led by the health authority but really managed by the joint care planning team.

▪ Under the regional managed care systems, most Medicaid patients would be served by health maintenance organizations.

▪ Doctors' incomes Doctors are generally earning less these days as managed care becomes a larger part of the medical marketplace.

▪ Meanwhile, economists argue about whether the true cost of healthcare has even gone down under managed care.

▪ He says that managed care firms integrate physical and mental health care.

▪ Shares of the managed-care company rose 1 1 / 2 to 58 1 / 4.

▪ California leads the nation in shifting to managed care, with San Diego County in the vanguard.

▪ But now, cost pressures in competitive managed care markets have led to cost-cutting.

need

▪ To succeed, you needed to take great care that you peaked just as the winning-post hove into view.

▪ This child also needs consistency in his care and love.

▪ The next chapter explores social work practice where a family member begins to need residential care.

▪ Who is likely to need long-term care insurance?

▪ On the way down, the path can be muddy and steep and in places needs extra care.

▪ They are usually set up near their convents, for premature and sick children need constant care.

▪ We need to take extra care when talking to elderly people because they may not see or hear so well.

▪ It will need your care to become established, especially in hot, dry weather.

provide

▪ Reflect the principal aspirations of the professions to provide better care.

▪ Or one county could provide child care while the next county did not.

▪ He says they've got the interests of the whole county to consider and they want to provide modern patient care.

▪ As the staff looks toward the future, its game plan is to provide quality care.

▪ The Health Education Council project on providing effective health care in a multi-racial society provides a useful checklist for assessing local services.

▪ She had a network of neighbors and relatives that provided child care.

▪ Community-based clinics, such as Aldershot Health Centre, can provide complete care for leg ulcers.

▪ Some patients report troubles persuading their managed-care health plans to provide cutting-edge care.

receive

▪ When a child or young person is received into care a placement with a carer or carers has to be made.

▪ He estimated that half had been receiving substandard care.

▪ I must give you my personal assurances that this infant is receiving perfect care.

▪ Or it could mean you received no care at all.

▪ Did they receive similar care at the same time or in the same order?

▪ Also, the percentage of District women who receive adequate prenatal care has improved somewhat since the start of the decade.

▪ Further requests were made to receive S into care.

▪ In many places, the children of these immigrants were prevented from going to school or receiving medical care.

require

▪ This requires care and patience in the preparation, performance, and marking of the tests but it can be most rewarding.

▪ Obviously, sleeping pills are not harmless; they are drugs that require caution and care in use.

▪ A child may, for instance, be born with serious handicaps or developmental problems requiring extended periods of care.

▪ Or should they concentrate their efforts on looking after those sufferers who require nursing care in day hospitals or wards?

▪ It does not require science to inform us that infants require infant care and children require child care.

▪ If the disorder is severe the patient may also require full care and, very occasionally, physical control.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

domiciliary services/care/visits etc

▪ Developments in day care, the home help service and other domiciliary services were the currency of growth in these departments.

▪ Hence domiciliary visits by medical staff are an integral part of any specialist service.

▪ It supplements care by kin, but families continue to provide the bulk of domiciliary care.

▪ Last year only voluntary Welfare Officer alone, made over 102 domiciliary visits.

▪ Nevertheless, companies trading in domiciliary care are now beginning to multiply - some from a base in the residential sector.

▪ One of the principal domiciliary services is that of home helps.

▪ Success typically gives access to one existing service, such as domiciliary care, and rejects another, such as residential care.

▪ Traditionally the burden of long-term domiciliary care has fallen on women.

don't give a hoot/don't care two hoots

not care/give tuppence

not know/care beans (about sb/sth)

tender loving care

▪ Mom gave us kids a lot of tender loving care.

▪ Right now I just need some tender loving care.

▪ At some level they still cling to the idea that tender loving care is the only factor in raising kids.

▪ Hospitals needed some one to give tender loving care to chil-dren, social agencies had various similar needs, and so on.

▪ It is the routine and tender loving care of the staff that create the best atmosphere.

▪ Lucky patients get superb nursing care, infused with professionalism and tender loving care.

▪ Mandy had plied her with tender loving care until the tears had come.

▪ The Backup New yachts suffer from teething problems, and older yachts need lots of tender loving care.

▪ Voice over Millie will need tender loving care and a lot of medical treatment before going home.

▪ With glass and tender loving care it can be done.

the utmost importance/respect/care etc

▪ Brian was always keen to stress that the comfort and wellbeing of the birds was of the utmost importance.

▪ Everyone has the utmost respect for Rickey Henderson.

▪ How soon and how broadly will you communicate that the changes at hand are of the utmost importance?

▪ Hygiene and safety take priority on the sunbeds while personal supervision is regarded as of the utmost importance on the toning tables.

▪ In fact I have the utmost respect for it.

▪ In particular in the sophisticated world of alchemy, the resonances of chemical and other truths were of the utmost importance.

▪ It is of the utmost importance that it is the mind of the human operator doing the selecting.

▪ Professors Berry and Mott are right to stress that the support of the child and the family is of the utmost importance.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ Care of the environment has become a priority in government thinking.

▪ All employees have been trained in the care of young children.

▪ hair-care products

▪ I'd advise you to follow a new skin care routine.

▪ Movies set you free from your cares for a while.

▪ She has become a leading expert on the care and maintenance of Renaissance paintings.

▪ skin care lotions

▪ The note on the box read, "Fragile - handle with care."

▪ These photocopiers require a little extra care to keep them running right.

▪ Your father will need constant medical care.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ A comprehensive review of the patient can be achieved through the use of the care plan.

▪ Finally, such medical care will generally involve invasive drug therapy.

▪ He had spent two hours taking care of his tires in the rain.

▪ I planned this thing with care.

▪ It recommends that resources for the developments in primary and community care to pump-prime and provide transitional support be secured urgently.

▪ Mud-Pony-Boy healed the horse with loving care and herbal compresses for the injured foot.

▪ Take care to fit the diodes and electrolytic capacitors the correct way round.

▪ The other is preventive health care for all, including prenatal care.

II.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

about

▪ All you've ever cared about is being approved of, like a little girl at a party.

▪ In the end, all you really cared about was what the Krausses of this world would think.

▪ Even the cash-flow predictions they cared about so much were nothing to her but answers she wanted ticked.

▪ The results were shocking, at least to people who care about squandered money.

▪ All he cares about are women and booze.

▪ Because no one I cared about ever looked at me as if I were beautiful.

▪ I care the way Jefferson cared about his rats and their portal shunts.

▪ The last person West buried that he cared about was his wife.

deeply

▪ Billie could see their closeness when Adam let her out, saw that they cared deeply for each other.

▪ We care deeply about u hat governments do, but this is a book about how they work.

▪ I care deeply about the comedy in the movie, that it's well-executed and fresh.

▪ He cared deeply about his beloved state of Massachusetts and about our country and its future.

▪ Yes, she had really cared deeply.

▪ He cared deeply for the human condition.

▪ It hurt her to think that Fernando cared deeply enough for another woman to do it.

▪ The marriage was a good one and Brenda and her husband clearly cared deeply about each other.

enough

▪ Some one cares enough to sponsor his education.

▪ He couldn't move as Richmann passed out of his field of vision, not caring enough to even notice Carrefour any longer.

▪ She thought she would never care enough about anyone to give birth to them or to kill them.

▪ She had not tried hard enough because she did not care enough.

▪ Only Jezrael doesn't care enough to find me, does she?

▪ I don't frankly think he cares enough either way to worry.

▪ After months of weeping and shouting and apologising, she did not care enough.

for

▪ Once the young are born they may be cared for by both their parents for many days.

▪ They want to have babies, but only as many as they can care for.

▪ Some older people want to be cared for by their children, others most definitely do not.

▪ Some small but particularly beautiful areas of woods, cliffs and islands are preserved and cared for by the National Trust.

▪ He was cared for by the Sisters of Mercy at the Horsforth home for retired clergy.

▪ If the message could have been from some one you care for, then where's the harm in it?

▪ Thus, those who are committed to caring for and working with old people have first to face two facts.

how

▪ Sailors waiting there hauled them roughly on to the ship, not caring how they landed.

▪ Alyssia didn't care how she looked.

▪ I don't care how long it takes us.

▪ As far as he is concerned, nobody cares how accurate our portrayal of Claudia's love life is.

▪ And even people who say they don't care how they look care how they look.

▪ Since Caliban wants to give, I don't care how much paper I waste.

▪ Obviously Delia Cope is a white middle class racist woman who really doesn't care how she oppresses us as Black women.

less

▪ Many of them care less about the exchange rate than about what is shown on the chart on the right.

▪ Today, corporations have become more streamlined and less caring.

▪ But at this moment Kate could not have cared less if he was a mass murderer.

▪ Guess their Sunday viewers are mostly trailer dwellers who could care less about public affairs.

▪ I was sopping, and I didn't care less.

▪ Now I seem to care less and less.

▪ They sort of couldn't care less if you were going to leave at the end of the fourth year.

▪ The suits overseeing news and editorial functions have no loyalty to this community and could care less about it.

much

▪ He didn't much care for it now that he looked at it closely.

▪ Nobody cared much what happened to it.

▪ I do not care much now about the way the women gape at me when I walk around in the village center.

▪ If Mr Parnham doesn't like it and we're both fired then I don't much care.

▪ Their menus had been planned with as much care as any part of the mission.

▪ Anyhow, he did not care much.

▪ Though I was floundering, I did not much care.

really

▪ She had contrarily thought that if he really cared he would have come running after her.

▪ In the end, all you really cared about was what the Krausses of this world would think.

▪ Do you know, sometimes I feel that the only person he really cares for on this earth is the Begum.

▪ I don't really care about what happened last year.

▪ I have to say I didn't really care much for that kind of approach.

▪ How deeply did people really care?

▪ Even if that flat pass from Wilkinson was forward, it was so short that nobody really cared.

▪ But be honest, do you really care?

■ NOUN

baby

▪ Sangenic is so easy and quick to use that it allows you more time to care for your baby.

▪ The infant's death occurred when her father was caring for the baby while his wife was at work.

▪ It was then that Carrie took over, dividing her time between caring for her baby and attending to her customers.

▪ You will soon see how Pampers are caring for your baby ... and your baby's world.

▪ I share at least half the household duties, including feeding and caring for the baby while my partner works and plays.

▪ The couple caring for the baby in their Middlesbrough home realise there is a long way to go.

▪ Visits Heidi's mum Christine, who is unable to care for baby because of severe post-natal depression, visits every day.

▪ I no longer need to work and she was delighted when I offered to care for the baby during the week.

child

▪ They get married and move, and may have young children to care for.

▪ The study was of 482 children who were cared for by a private pediatric practice in suburban Philadelphia.

▪ The animal kingdom gets its fair share of attention as children learn how to care for pets.

▪ With one small child to care for, she went on welfare, and soon won a scholarship to college.

▪ Currently grandparents are raising 3. 4 million children; 6 million families depend on grandparents for primary child care.

▪ Girl, now show me my way, for I have a child to care for.

▪ Eliminating state barriers to checking criminal backgrounds of child care workers.

family

▪ Relatives are often fearful of complaining lest there is a backlash in the kind of treatment or care the family member receives.

▪ Women who really care about their families make it fresh every day.

▪ They don't care about their families.

▪ She was cared for by various families of the city and earned money for her board by attending small children.

▪ They don't care about the family man getting shot, they don't care about the families.

▪ What did Claire care about families?

▪ He didn't care if his family thought him great.

health

▪ However, in health care the concept is more difficult to explain.

▪ She spends $ 300 or less on health care a year and pays $ 1, 625 in Medicare and Medigap premiums.

▪ Take, for example, the vexed subject of health care.

▪ She knew nothing about health care.

▪ The trend is likely to place unprecedented demands on the health care system, principally for nursing and custodial care.

▪ It was also a strong year for health care investing.

▪ No employer would have to pay more than 7. 9 percent of payroll on health care.

▪ During the quarter, investors continued to snap up selected stocks in two hot industries: technology and health care.

hospital

▪ The new hospital will care for the annual 3,000 or so wildlife casualties in the area.

▪ But they believe there will always be a need for hospitals to care for volatile children who have exhausted every other alternative.

▪ The staff were used to the rigours of war ... The hospital was opened to care for Amnerican casualties in 1942.

▪ Improving models I work in a psychiatric hospital on a unit caring for functionally ill elderly people.

▪ Relatives may make a gift to a local hospital that has cared for a loved one.

▪ The trial continues. HOSPITAL nurses caring for elderly patients are fighting plans to ban uniforms on the wards.

others

▪ Spurred by the horrors he witnessed in war, Cheshire dedicated his life to caring for others after it was over.

▪ Of course, he'd given up medicine to pursue comedy, but he was absolutely at his best when caring for others.

▪ He seemed to care little about what others, beyond his parents, thought of him.

▪ Lucky child, to be so well cared for while others suffer so much!

▪ I have cared for others all of my adult life.

▪ The ultimate virtue, I thought, is caring for others.

▪ Who relieves the state of the burden of caring for others?

parent

▪ Many adult children gain great happiness from caring for a much-loved parent in the closing years of their life.

▪ Will restoring some economic equity to the family guarantee that every child will have responsible and caring parents?

▪ It's the strain of caring for a parent with Alzheimers disease.

▪ The ideal of caring for aging parents is sufficiently strong that even the most undeserving aging parents can ride its coattails.

▪ We are also taught to be caring and nurturing parents.

▪ The opportunity exists right there to be a wise and caring parent.

▪ Many daughters who are caring full-time for a parent or parents at home have financial worries too.

▪ It is women who have traditionally borne the daily burden of caring for ill parents, children, relatives and friends.

patient

▪ The abilities of staff and availability of facilities to care for critically ill patients vary in all areas of health care.

▪ In both black and Latino practices, doctors were more likely to care for the poor patients.

▪ These will be in effect, a statement of the treatment and care a patient should receive with associated standards attached.

▪ He had been caring for a stroke patient who seemed to understand much of what was said to him.

▪ The student who has cared for a patient is in the best position to evaluate and report on his or her progress.

▪ Most people caring for diabetic patients realise the importance of the patient actively participating in the very first injection of insulin.

▪ As a junior nurse it is important that you receive extra instruction and practice under supervision before caring for these patients.

▪ Specialist nurses Many health authorities employ nurses in specialist roles to care for patients with particular needs.

people

▪ The government's being urged to provide more financial support for people who care for sick or disabled relatives.

▪ Few people notice or perhaps care when such inspections are directed at commercial enterprises.

▪ Some older people want to be cared for by their children, others most definitely do not.

▪ A few people care about news, and only a tiny percentage of those care about serious news.

▪ There are some people who don't care if you are a hero or not.

▪ Only shallow people care about appearances, so if I look like this, I must be deep.

▪ But other people wouldn't care about that.

▪ James was also tremendously loyal to people he cared about, and in him I found a true friend.

■ VERB

love

▪ I really want to know she is loved and cared for.

▪ The heart-centred loving and caring aspect of our make-up is where compassion resides.

▪ What is important, however, is to convey to children that they are loved and cared for.

seem

▪ He didn't seem to care that Nick was so much younger than he was.

▪ He seemed to care little about what others, beyond his parents, thought of him.

▪ But very few people seem to care.

▪ But the public seemed not to care.

▪ He didn't seem to care.

▪ But my psychology professors seemed not to care at all about minorities.

▪ Few academic historians seem to care about the literary elegance that sustains the essay form.

▪ The building is crawling with people who seem to care less about the job itself than about holding on to it.