caretaking

caretaker | American Dictionary

caretaker
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkeərˌteɪ·kər/
a person employed to take care of a large building or property, doing cleaning, repairs, gardening, or other jobs:
The building’s caretaker reported the fire.
A caretaker government is one that is in power for a short period of time until a new one is chosen.
A caretaker is also a caregiver.

caretaker | Business English

caretaker
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈkeəˌteɪkər/us(USScottish alsojanitor); (US alsocustodian)
a person who is employed to take care of a large building, such as a school or office building, and to deal with the cleaning, repairs, etc.:
He lived on the ground floor of the apartment block, where he worked as a caretaker.
a building/school/church caretaker
caretaker
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ˈkeəˌteɪkər/us
relating to a person or a group of people who is doing a job until someone can be found to do it permanently:
a caretaker boss/manager
a caretaker government/president/prime minister

Examples of caretaker

caretaker
With the patient's permission, spouses, relatives, neighbours, and other caretakers should be advised as to how to manage seizures if they occur.
Such responses are seen even in infant rats, whose facial expressions of pain would surely be lost on potential caretakers (albeit not their crying).
Table 3 shows the caretaker's interpretations of what the baby wanted.
After highlighting objects in the books to the children, the caretakers repeat the child's utterance.
They have acted as caretakers, and the financial aspects of water management activities are usually covered quite well.
As the caretakers of the government-sponsored bills, the cabinet and the governing parties are watching how they go through the whole legislative process.
However, the behavior of captives, who are influenced by human caretakers and artificial environments, is irrelevant here.
Sadly this also enabled the original caretaker's post to be dispensed with and his house to be sold.
The caretakers (and researchers) are often bilingual themselves and hence set up the stage, however involuntarily, for mixed language.
Dependent measures were individually administered to primary caretakers and boys by research assistants who were uninformed about the boys' intervention status.
Sadly, many children entering placement after age 8 years have a history of separations from their primary caretakers.
Finally, maltreatment severity and self-representations at entry each appear to account independently for a significant amount of the variance in caretakers' reports of internalizing behavior.
Such women are the primary caretakers in the clan and family and pass on values of compassion, understanding and civility to their families.
In addition, some children were assigned as the primary caretakers of young birds, and in many instances, the hatchlings were extensively handled.
The women, then, cover those issues that are central to women's roles as caretakers and guardians of the private sphere.
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