In care

Definition

care /keǝ(r)/ n ၁။ [U] ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ျပဳစုျခင္း။ She was too young to give the child the care it needed. ❍ the care of the elderly in society ❍ medical/health care ❍ skin/hair care. See also CHILD CARE ၂။ [U] ~ (over sth/in doing sth) အထိအခိုက္မျဖစ္ေစရန္ ဂ႐ုတစိုက္လုပ္ျခင္း။ She arranged the flowers with great care. ❍ You should take more care over your work. ❍ Care is needed when crossing the road. ❍ Fragile—handle with care (eg as a warning on a container holding glass). ၃။ (က) [U] စိုးရိမ္မႈ။ ေသာက။ ေၾကာင့္ၾက။ free from care. (ခ) [C esp pl ] စိုးရိမ္ဖြယ္။ စိုးရိမ္စရာ။ အေၾကာင့္ၾက။ weighed down by the cares of a demanding job ❍ not have a care in the world (ie have no worries or responsibilities). v ၁။ ~ (about sb/sth) အေရးစိုက္သည္။ ဂ႐ုစိုက္သည္။ မႈ သည္။ He failed the examination but he didn't seem to care. ❍ Don't you care about this country's future? ❍ She really cares about other people and their problems. ❍ All she cares about is her social life. ❍ I don't think she cares (about) what happens to her children. ၂။ ~ for sth (in negative sentences or questions, esp with would ) လိုခ်င္သည္။ စားခ်င္ေသာက္ခ်င္သည္။ Would you care for a drink? ❍ Would you care to go for a walk? ❍ If you'd care to wait here, I'll tell him you've arrived. ❍ WANT ❏ care for sb [ PHRV ] ၁။ ျပဳစုေစာင့္ေရွာက္သည္။ care for the sick ❍ Who will care for him if his wife dies? ၂။ သူတစ္ဦးကို အလြန္ခ်စ္သည္။ He cares for her deeply. ❏ care for sb/sth [ PHRV ] (in negative or interrogative sentences) ႀကိဳက္သည္။ I like him but I don't care for her. ❍ I don't care much/much care for opera. ❏ care of sb ( abbr c/o ) [ IDM ] …ကေက်းဇူးျပဳ၍။ …မွ တစ္ဆင့္။ Write to him care of his lawyer. ❏ caring /'keǝrÇŋ/ adj ျပဳစုေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေသာ။ caring parents ❍ Children need a caring environment. ❍ nursing and other caring professions (ie ones that involve looking after or helping other people). ❏ have a care [ IDM ] ( dated ) (esp imperative) သတိထား ပါ။ ❏ in care [ IDM ] ( Brit ) (ကေလး) မိဘမဲ့၍၊ ခိုကိုးရာမဲ့၍ ရပ္ရြာက ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ထားသည္။ ❏ in the care of sb [ IDM ] ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ရန္ အပ္ထားသည္။ They left the child in a friend's care. ❏ not care less [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဂ႐ုမစိုက္ဘူး။ I couldn't care less who wins the match. ❏ not care a straw/two straws (about sth/sb) [ IDM ] အေရးမစိုက္။ He couldn't care a straw about my feelings. ❏ take care (that…/to do sth) [ IDM ] (esp imperative) သတိထား။ ဂ႐ုစိုက္ပါ။ Take care (that) you don't drink too much/not to drink too much. ❍ Goodbye, and take care! ❏ take care of oneself/sb/sth [ IDM ] ၁။ ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ ၾကည့္႐ႈသည္။ ထိန္းႏိုင္သည္။ My sister is taking care of the children while we're away. ❍ He's old enough to take care of himself. ၂။ တာဝန္ယူသည္။ Mr Smith takes care of marketing and publicity. ❍ Her secretary took care of all her appointments. ❏ under the care of sb [ IDM ] ေဆးကုသျခင္း ခံယူသည္။ She's under the care of a specialist. ❏ who cares? [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဘယ္သူျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ဂ႐ုမစိုက္။ ‘Who do you think will be the next president?’ ‘Who cares?’

Examples

1. I can see that a lot of care has gone into your work.
2. [with care] : The label on the box said ‘Handle with care’.
3. [great/special/extra care] : He was choosing his words with great care.
4. [exercise care] : The police must exercise more care in the arrest of young offenders.
5. [reasonable/due care] : The employer had failed to exercise reasonable care.
6. Some of the injured were in need of hospital care.
7. The unit provides specialist medical care for premature babies.
8. The elderly residents receive an excellent standard of care and treatment.
9. I left him in your care – you should have watched him!
10. [care of] : A technique used in the care of mental patients
11. [in care] : She spent 12 years in care.
12. [take someone into care] : Her two children were taken into care.
13. Advice on the proper care of your new car
14. A good skin-care routine