CHILDCARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does childcare mean? 

• CHILDCARE (noun)
  The noun CHILDCARE has 1 sense:

1. a service involving care for other people's children

  Familiarity information: CHILDCARE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHILDCARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A service involving care for other people's children

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

child care; childcare

Hypernyms ("childcare" is a kind of...):

service (an act of help or assistance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "childcare"):

day care; daycare (childcare during the day while parents work)

 Context examples 

By age 8, children were more likely to log the highest amount of screen time if they had been in home-based childcare or were born to first-time mothers.

(High amounts of screen time begin as early as infancy, National Institutes of Health)

This house also covers valuable gifts as well as company benefits, such as health insurance or on-site childcare, that are worth good money if you were to pay for those benefits yourself.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)