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Princeton's WordNet

  1. childcare, child carenoun

    a service involving care for other people's children

Wiktionary

  1. childcarenoun

    The act, practice, or occupation of supervising and taking care of young children.

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  1. childcare

    Childcare, also known as day-care, refers to the care, supervision, and nurturing of a child or children, typically from birth to age thirteen. This service can be performed by someone other than the child's legal guardians, often by a professional caregiver or a childcare institution, and may include educational and social activities to aid the child's overall development. It can be provided in a variety of settings such as the child's own home, a child-care centre or in a family childcare home.

Editors Contribution

  1. childcare

    A form of creche, childminder, montessori, playgroup, nursery or other form of preschool services.

    Nationalization of a variety of childcare services started to ensure this essential service becomes a form of public service paid for by the government.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 12, 2020  


  2. childcare

    A type of nationalized public service that is accessible, affordable and sustainable, created and designed to provide a variety of services for children with the accurate and specific ability, experience, management, employees, knowledge, skills, training and qualifications to provide the service responsibly. All employees who work in this service are guaranteed a starting wage of the living wage. This service is funded by unity government funding, philanthropy, music industry philanthropy, sportspeople philanthropy and is provided free to all parents across the country.

    Childcare services are an important service for women and men to work as the parents work and guide a family.


    Submitted by MaryC on December 28, 2019  

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of childcare in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of childcare in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of childcare in a Sentence

  1. Yue Qian:

    Overwork culture contributes to gender equality because of the expectation that men and women have to work long hours and they can not take time off, all these expectations disadvantage mothers with young children in the labor market, especially given that men contribute very little to housework or childcare in China.

  2. Nick Smith:

    After the rain in Florence, my wife mandated that all future runcations either include an extra adult to help with childcare - or that the kids race with me.

  3. Barack Obama:

    It is time that we stop treating childcare as a side issue or a 'women’s issue,' this is a family issue. This is a national economic priority for all of us. We can do better than we’re doing right now.

  4. Jessica Brown:

    With the Omicron surge, a lot of childcare centers were already understaffed, and so they don't have the people to cover when employees are absent.

  5. Elizabeth Warren:

    It's time to recognize that childcare is part of the basic infrastructure of this nation, it's infrastructure for families.

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