DAY CARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does day care mean? 

• DAY CARE (noun)
  The noun DAY CARE has 1 sense:

1. childcare during the day while parents work

  Familiarity information: DAY CARE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAY CARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Childcare during the day while parents work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

day care; daycare

Hypernyms ("day care" is a kind of...):

child care; childcare (a service involving care for other people's children)

 Context examples 

Children who spent time in center-based day care were less likely to have high cotinine levels.

(Infants, Toddlers at More Risk from Exposure to Second-Hand Smoke than Thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Consider using adult day care or respite services.

(Alzheimer's Caregivers, NIH: National Institute on Aging)

Places may also be sites that are investigated in the context of health care, social work, public health administration (e.g., buildings, picnic grounds, day care centers, prisons, counties, states, and other focuses of epidemiological events).

(Place, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)