Child-minder

Definition

child /tʃaÇld/ n ( pl children /'tʃÇldrǝn/) ၁။ (က) ကေလး။ a child of six ေျခာက္ႏွစ္သား/သမီး။ ❍ a child actor. See also ONLY CHILD (ခ) သား။ သမီး။ When he retired his children took over the business. ❍ She is married with three children. သူဟာအိမ္ေထာင္ရွင္၊ ကေလးသံုးေယာက္ မိခင္ျဖစ္တယ္။ (ဂ) သားသမီး။ ရင္ေသြး။ She is expecting her first child. သားဦးကိုယ္ဝန္ရိွေနၿပီ။ ❍ laws to protect the unborn child . သေႏၶသားကို ကာကြယ္သည့္ ဥပေဒ။ ၂။ (က) ( derog ) ကေလးဆန္သူ။ ကေလးကလားႏိုင္သူ။ You wouldn't think a man of forty could be such a child. (ခ) အေတြ႕ အႀကံဳ မရိွသူ။ She's a child in financial matters. ❍ He's a child where women are concerned . မိန္းမနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ လာရင္ သူဟာ သူငယ္တန္း အဆင့္ပဲရိွေသးတယ္။ ၃။ ~ of sth ထိုေခတ္၊ ထိုေနရာ၊ ထိုပုဂၢိဳလ္ကို စြဲလမ္းသူ။ She's a real child of the (19)60s. (၁၉)၆၀ျပည့္လြန္ ႏွစ္မ်ားရဲ႕ ေလာင္းရိပ္ထဲကသူ။ ❏ be with child [ IDM ] ( arch ) ကိုယ္ဝန္ရိွသည္။ ❏ child abuse n [U] ကေလးသူငယ္ ညႇဥ္းပန္းႏိွပ္စက္ျခင္း၊ မေတာ္မတရားျပဳျခင္း။ victims of child abuse ❍ laws to prevent child abuse. ❏ child-bearing n [U] မီးဖြားျခင္း။ သားသမီးေမြးဖြားျခင္း။ She's past child-bearing age. ❏ child benefit n [U] (ၿဗိတိန္တြင္) သားသမီးအတြက္ အစိုးရေထာက္ပံ့စရိတ္။ ❏ child care n [U] ကေလးသူငယ္ ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ျခင္း အလုပ္။ The company provides child care facilities. ❏ childhood /'tʃaÇldhƱd/ n [U, C] ကေလးဘဝ။ the joys of childhood ❍ She had an unhappy childhood. ❍ childhood memories. ေအာက္ေမ့စရာ ငယ္ငယ္တုန္းက အျဖစ္မ်ား။ ❏ childless adj သားသမီးမထြန္းကားေသာ။ a childless couple/marriage. ❏ child-minder n ( esp Brit ) (အလုပ္သမားမိဘမ်ား အတြက္) ကေလးထိန္း။ ❏ child's play [ IDM ] ( infml ) အလြန္လြယ္ကူေသာ အရာ။ It's not a difficult climb—it should be child's play for an experienced mountaineer. အေတြ႕အႀကံဳရိွတဲ့ ေတာင္တက္ သမားအဖို႔ ဒီေတာင္ေလာက္ေတာ့ ကေလးကစားစရာပါပဲ။ ❏ a/one's second childhood [ IDM ] ( often joc ) သူငယ္ ျပန္သည္။ He's in his second childhood, playing with his grandson's toy trains.

Examples

1. The nursery has places for 30 children.
2. The film is not suitable for young children.
3. He can’t understand – he’s just a child.
4. A child car seat
5. New programmes to address the problem of child poverty
6. A child actor
7. Child workers
8. All of our children are grown and married.
9. They’re expecting their second child in May.
10. [child of] : A selfish
11. materialistic child of the ’80s