Wiktionary
alt. The act of taking care or taking charge of something. n. The act of taking care or taking charge of something.
Usage examples of "caretaking".
I have tenant farmers, Minorcans mostly, and a couple that does some caretaking for me around the place.
My sister has borne the brunt of the caretaking, but she and Mom don't get along.
And, come to think of it, to find an overhead project that worked and to persuade someone to clean that palimpsest of a white board The only chemical that would shift the layers of board marker was rumoured to be carcinogenic, and since even the most cavalier of the caretaking team would always insist on donning a mask and heavy-duty gloves to use it, that was one job I wouldn't volunteer for.
At least the pilot had defaulted to the kind of optimistic, caretaking mode Chekov could depend on to help rather than hinder the coming walk.
Panic tried to jump up into her throat, and then she suddenly remembered the rusty old pickup truck Bill Dunn drove on his caretaking rounds, and the joke sticker on the back bumper: LEFTY LOOSEY, RIGHTY TIGHTY, it said.