Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having needed care and attention. Opposite of
uncared-for .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having needed care and attention
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Examples
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I see a lot of clinical depression in carers and cared-for alike.
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But Becky Lomax's excellent and poignant film is as much about the carers as the cared-for.
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Already bearing the brunt of welfare changes at a time of financial hardship, with worse to come as local authorities implement this year's savage cuts, the disabled and the cared-for are facing an uncertain future.
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McMahon dismissed Blumenthal's charge Monday night that WWE "market (s) sex and violence," contending that viewers understand that it's a "soap opera" and that wrestlers are "well cared-for."
In first Connecticut Senate debate, Linda McMahon and Richard Blumenthal spar over Vietnam, minimum wage Felicia Sonmez 2010
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"He was a very cared-for member of the community," Ms. Godin said.
Hantavirus Killed 35-Year-Old Man on Long Island Andrew Grossman 2011
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Aimed at giving carers a break and the cared-for confidence, it has been a lifeline for the Baileys and others like them.
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She was well cared-for in a non-medical way, and she had frequent phone conversations with her practitioner.
I shall pray for you, if you ask nicely… « Dating Jesus 2009
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Meanwhile her husband is free to work as long and as hard as he wants and then come home to a cared-for house, and a loving child.
Nina Sankovitch: The Help in La-La Land: My Hollywood by Mona Simpson 2010
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Meanwhile her husband is free to work as long and as hard as he wants and then come home to a cared-for house and a loving child.
Nina Sankovitch: The Help in La-La Land: My Hollywood by Mona Simpson 2010
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The engine has a smooth, cared-for sound, unusual in cabs.
GIRL BY THE ROAD AT NIGHT DAVID RABE 2010
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