WordNet
n. the care that a reasonable man would exercise under the circumstances; the standard for determining legal duty [syn: due care, ordinary care]
Usage examples of "reasonable care".
Neither the shower nor the pill Cella had kindly left for him helped much, but he managed to dress with reasonable care, and made his way to join the others.
Right before we put on our final expert, who'll testify about what constitutes reasonable care in a forceps delivery, I call the doc, the defendant, as an adverse witness, just to establish a couple things about the procedure.
Florian can verify it, if you like, and Florian can remove the unit himself, with, I trust, some reasonable care not to damage the rest of the system.
With reasonable care they could be made to last six or seven kilorevs.
Harry's ship at least had a medirobot aboard, and it would afford the victim reasonable care.
But if you took reasonable care, you didn't have to worry about phluxes jumping you to feed their habit, or Noses landing on you for something they think you might have done.
However, I must disagree with you very strongly that providing ordinary and reasonable care in any way constitutes coddling, and I have always found that deprivation and hardship, when necessary, can be better endured by men who have not been subjected to them previously for no cause.
Remember you're a marked man now, and take reasonable care of yourself.
Kneeling in front of it, as though -- and here he laughed sardonically -- he worshipped his own work, he began to bundle it into the larger of his two suitcases, separating -- with reasonable care -- manuscripts from sandwich-crusts, cigarette-packets, and the cylinders of long-used toilet-rolls.
With reasonable care, it would last not only through the warhowever long that lastedbut indefinitely thereafter.