Tra từ care - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

care [care cares cared caring] noun, verb BrE [keə(r)] NAmE [ker]
noun
1. uncountable the process of caring for sb/sth and providing what they need for their health or protection
•medical/patient care
• How much do men share housework and the care of the children?
•the provision of care for the elderly
•skin/hair care products
see also ↑day care, ↑easy-care, ↑health care, ↑intensive care
2. uncountable attention or thought that you give to sth that you are doing so that you will do it well and avoid mistakes or damage
• She chose her words with care.
• Great care is needed when choosing a used car.
•Fragile— handle with care (= written on a container holding sth which is easily broken or damaged)
3. countable, usually plural, uncountable (formal)a feeling of worry or anxiety; something that causes problems or anxiety
•I felt free from the cares of the day as soon as I left the building.
•Sam looked as if he didn't have a care in the world.

Word Origin:
Old English caru (noun), carian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Old High German chara ‘grief, lament’, charon ‘grieve’, and Old Norse kǫr ‘sickbed’.

Thesaurus:
care noun U
•She chose her words with care.
caution • • attention • |formal prudence • • regard •
Opp: carelessness
do sth with care/caution/attention to sth/prudence
need/call for care/caution/attention
use/exercise care/caution/prudence

Word Family:
care noun verb
careful adjective (≠ careless)
carefully adverb (≠ carelessly)
caring adjective (≠ uncaring)

Synonyms:
care
caution • prudence
These are all words for attention or thought that you give to sth in order to avoid mistakes or accidents.
care • attention or thought that you give to sth that you are doing so that you will do it well and avoid mistakes or damage: ▪ She chose her words with care.
caution • care that you take in order to avoid danger or mistakes; not taking any risks: ▪ The utmost caution must be exercised when handling explosives.
prudence • (rather formal) being sensible and careful when you make judgements and decisions; avoiding unnecessary risks: ▪ As a matter of prudence, keep a record of all your financial transactions.
Prudence is used particularly in financial contexts.
to do sth with care/caution/prudence
great/extreme care/caution/prudence
to use/exercise care/caution/prudence
to proceed with care/caution

Which Word?:
take care of / look after / care for
You can take care of or, especially in BrE, look after someone who is very young, very old, or sick, or something that needs keeping in good condition: ▪ We’ve asked my mother to take care of/look after the kids while we’re away. ◇ ▪ You can borrow my camera if you promise to take care of/look after it.
In more formal language you can also care for someone: ▪ She does some voluntary work, caring for the elderly, but care for is more commonly used to mean ‘like’: ▪ I don’t really care for spicy food.

Example Bank:
•Family members can provide child care with love and without charge.
•Great care should be taken to ensure that the equipment is clean.
•He had been in foster care since he was five.
•He left his job to take care of his sick wife.
•He loved his books and took great care of them.
•He takes excessive care of his appearance.
•He was found guilty of driving without due care and attention.
•He was in care for five years.
•I'll take care of hiring the car.
•Last night she was critically ill in intensive care.
•Many historic sites are in the care of the National Trust.
•She will need lots of tender loving care.
•She's still very frail and will need lots of tender loving care.
•The boys were taken into care when their parents died.
•The couple relied on informal care from relatives.
•The householder has a duty to take reasonable care for the visitor's safety.
•The little girl was writing her name with painstaking care.
•Transporting the specimens requires great care.
•We have improved the way doctors deliver care.
•With proper care, the plants may last for fifty years.
•access to basic health-care services
•an intensive care unit
•children in public care
•recent changes in health-care policy
•sensitive to the health-care needs of underserved groups
•Fragile— handle with care.
•He was just walking along without a care in the world.
•She chose her words with care.
•She was charged with driving without due care and attention.
•medical/patient care
Idioms: What do I/you care? ▪ ↑Would you care for something? ▪ ↑Would you care to do something? ▪ ↑care of somebody ▪ ↑couldn't care less ▪ for all you/I/they care ▪ ↑in care ▪ in the care of somebody sb's care ▪ ↑take care ▪ ↑take care of somebody ▪ ↑under the care of somebody ▪ ↑who cares?
Derived: ↑care for somebody ▪ ↑not care for somebody

verb (not used in the progressive tenses)
1. intransitive, transitive to feel that sth is important and worth worrying about
•I don't care (= I will not be upset) if I never see him again!
• He threatened to fire me, as if I cared!
•~ about sth She cares deeply about environmental issues.
•~ what/whether, etc. I don't care what he thinks.
•~ that… She doesn't seem to care that he's been married four times before.
2. intransitive ~ (about sb) to like or love sb and worry about what happens to them
• He genuinely cares about his employees.
• They care an awful lot about each other.
3. transitive ~ to do sth to make the effort to do sth
•I've done this job more times than I care to remember.
more at not care/give a damn at ↑damn _n., not care/give a fig at ↑fig _n., not care/give a hootnot care/give two hoots at ↑hoot _n., not care/give tuppence for sb/sth at ↑tuppence
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Old English caru (noun), carian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Old High German chara ‘grief, lament’, charon ‘grieve’, and Old Norse kǫr ‘sickbed’.

Thesaurus:
care verb I
•I don't care what he thinks!
mind • |especially BrE, informal, spoken be bothered •
care/mind/be bothered about sth
care/mind/be bothered that…
not care/mind/be bothered what people think
Care or mind? Mind is used in polite questions and answers. When answering a question I don't mind is polite; I don't care is very rude.

Word Family:
care noun verb
careful adjective (≠ careless)
carefully adverb (≠ carelessly)
caring adjective (≠ uncaring)

More About:
offers and invitations
Would you like…? is the most usual polite question form for offers and invitations, especially in BrE: ▪ Would you like a cup of coffee?
Do you want…? is less formal and more direct. It is more common in NAmE than in BrE: ▪ We’re going to a club tonight. Do you want to come with us?
Would you care…? is very formal and now sounds old-fashioned.

Synonyms:
love
like • be fond of sb • adore • be devoted to sb • care for sb • dote on sb
These words all mean to have feelings of love or affection for sb.
love • to have strong feelings of affection for sb: ▪ I love you.
like • to find sb pleasant and enjoy being with them: ▪ She's nice. I like her.
be fond of sb • to feel affection for sb, especially sb you have known for a long time: ▪ I've always been very fond of your mother.
adore • to love sb very much: ▪ It's obvious that she adores him.
be devoted to sb • to love sb very much and be loyal to them: ▪ They are devoted to their children.
care for sb • to love sb, especially in a way that is based on strong affection or a feeling of wanting to protect them, rather than sex: ▪ He cared for her more than she realized.
Care for sb is often used when sb has not told anyone about their feelings or is just starting to be aware of them. It is also used when sb wishes that sb loved them, or doubts that sb does: ▪ If he really cared for you, he wouldn't behave like that.
dote on sb • to feel and show great love for sb, ignoring their faults: ▪ He dotes on his children.
to really love/like/adore/care for/dote on sb
to be really/genuinely fond of/devoted to sb
to love/like/care for sb very much

Example Bank:
•He hardly cares what he does any more.
•He really cares about the environment.
•I don't know which she chose, nor do I greatly care.
•I'm past caring what he does.
•No one actually cared what I thought.
•The information is there for anyone who cares enough to find it.
•You genuinely care for him, don't you?
•He genuinely cares about his customers.
•He threatened to leave me, as if I cared!
•I don't care what he thinks!
•I don't care if I never see him again!
•She cares passionately about environmental issues.
•She doesn't seem to care that he's been married four times before.

See also: ↑in care of somebody