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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
caring
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
person
▪ He was a very gentle, caring person.
▪ Indeed she is such a kind and caring person that colleagues have questioned whether she is sometimes too subservient to her officials.
▪ Mr Wong said his friend was a bright student and a caring person.
▪ Surely, if she was the caring person she makes out, she would insist on paying her dues.
profession
▪ Given the recent events in Orkney and elsewhere, promoting social work as a caring profession must restore faith in its activities.
▪ She was admirably suited to membership of a caring profession.
▪ After the cars came representatives of the caring professions and local charities.
▪ Disabled people are widely discriminated against in most types of employment including the health and caring professions.
relationship
▪ Many pastoral and voluntary caring relationships are now bought and sold in the market place.
▪ These can be drawn out from within the history of a caring relationship particularly where there is a principal carer taking responsibility.
▪ Nor does the setting up of separate households necessarily imply a weakening of social and caring relationships.
▪ Different caring relationships People facing retirement might find themselves responsible for the care of others for a number of different reasons.
▪ Any attempt to dodge this is professionally demeaning and destructive of a trustful caring relationship with the client.
▪ For the best interests are essentially those of a full and developed personality to which caring relationships with others are integral.
▪ Yet it seems very likely that it is an important factor in explaining the caring relationship.
▪ The biography of the relationship People enter a caring relationship with the experience of a number of life events in common.
responsibility
▪ In addition, unmarried women carers are more likely than either married women or men to be carrying particularly heavy caring responsibilities.
▪ These carers were then followed up and details extracted about their caring responsibilities and the effects of caring.
▪ At all ages up to 75, a higher proportion of women are likely to face caring responsibilities than their male counterparts.
▪ In other words, women's caring responsibilities are being used as a ground for excluding them from benefits.
▪ Putting a cash figure to the loss of employment that results from caring responsibilities is far from straight forward.
▪ Her comments set the divisions of caring responsibilities and material resources in particularly sharp relief.
▪ Women's caring responsibilities frequently include the welfare of male partners as well as children.
role
▪ These ties bear hardest on those who tend to accept moral responsibility for caring roles.
▪ In this instance, the caring role of the learner may well interfere with the task of adequately learning the language.
▪ Family relationships were also felt to suffer, with l6 carers specifically mentioning the friction and tension caused by their caring role.
▪ We must not do anything to discourage people from taking on that caring role.
service
▪ This is a development of some importance for the evolution of integrated caring services in the community.
▪ This would be the next logical progression in the organisation of caring services in Britain.
▪ Is it not also about turning a caring service into a business?
▪ Improved co-ordination of all caring services.
▪ The caring services - better resources than ever before.
▪ The Salvation Army said it acknowledged with gratitude the faithful and caring service of the staff over the years.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a caring family
▪ It is possible for men to be tough and at the same time, caring and sensitive.
▪ Just because a family has money does not guarantee that the children have responsible and caring parents.
▪ Roger's a warm and caring person.
▪ Sharon was lucky to have such caring parents at a time when she needed help.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Communication within the caring team, and the formation of nursing care plans, ensures continuity of patient care.
▪ I couldn't ask for a more caring and loving bunch of people.
▪ In addition, unmarried women carers are more likely than either married women or men to be carrying particularly heavy caring responsibilities.
▪ The defence solicitor, Jack Gowans, said Ballantine has a drink problem but is a kind, intelligent and caring man.
▪ The guidance emphasises that restraint should be used as a last resort within a caring and disciplined home environment.
▪ This is a development of some importance for the evolution of integrated caring services in the community.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caring

Care \Care\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cared; p. pr. & vb. n. Caring.] [AS. cearian. See Care, n.] To be anxious or solicitous; to be concerned; to have regard or interest; -- sometimes followed by an objective of measure. I would not care a pin, if the other three were in. --Shak. Master, carest thou not that we perish? --Mark. iv. 38. To care for.

  1. To have under watchful attention; to take care of.

  2. To have regard or affection for; to like or love.

    He cared not for the affection of the house.
    --Tennyson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
caring

1550s, verbal noun from care (v.).

caring

"compassionate," 1966, present participle adjective from care (v.). Related: Caringly; caringness.

Wiktionary
caring

  1. (context of a person English) kind, sensitive, empathetic. n. The act of one who cares. v

  2. (present participle of care English)

WordNet
caring

  1. adj. showing a care; "a caring mother" [syn: protective]

  2. having or displaying warmth or affection; "affectionate children"; "caring parents"; "a fond embrace"; "fond of his nephew"; "a tender glance"; "a warm embrace" [syn: affectionate, fond, lovesome, tender, warm]

  3. feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others; "caring friends"

  4. n. a loving feeling [syn: lovingness]

Wikipedia
Caring (album)

Caring is the debut album by Rosie Gaines, released October 8, 1985.

Usage examples of "caring".

His kiss told her of gentleness and caring and the passion for her that infused his every breath.

For all his passionate intensity, for all his consummate skill in touching her, the laughter and gentle caring they had shared with one another at Hidden Springs was gone.

She had never been kissed like that, had never even dreamed such gentleness and caring was possible from a man.

That makes me great mistress material but not worth more than a few nights in the sheets, not worth really caring about, certainly not worth loving.

Somehow she had given a continuity of love and caring to him that she had never found for herself after their mother died.

When he felt the resistance of her closed lips, he simply tightened his arms, demanding what he must have, not really knowing or caring why.

He had looked over a lot of castle walls, shrugged, and gone on, caring only for the next mountain range, the next skirmish beyond the valley, the next battle in a war older than he was.

Without shifting her away, he tilted her head back again, keeping her close, not caring that his jeans were getting soaked.

No longer caring if she made any noise, she shoved away from the chair’s support and bolted for the downstairs bathroom.

The gentleness of her hands caring for him was also arousing, but in a different way.

Reno was as thorough in caring for the animals as he was in caring for his weapons.

The cloth would be warm from the sun and sweet from washing, but sweetest of all would be the mixture of caring and womanly hunger and approval in Shannon’s eyes when she watched him.

All the caring little gestures, the worried glances, the determined smile, the words.

She kept thinking of the boy who had hoarded a Christmas candy cane and still treasured the sweet memory, a tangible symbol of someone caring for him, if only a little, and only once.

She saw a younger Hawk driving like a man possessed, not caring about living or dying or anything in between.