Definition of Childcare

1. Noun. A service involving care for other people's children.

Exact synonyms: Child Care
Generic synonyms: Service
Specialized synonyms: Day Care, Daycare

Definition of Childcare

1. Noun. The act, practice, or occupation of supervising and taking care of young children. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Childcare

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Childcare

child support
child welfare
child welfare agency
child welfare service
childbearing
childbearing age
childbearings
childbed
childbed fever
childbeds
childbirth
childbirths
childbride
childbrides
childcare (current term)
childcarer
childcarers
childcares
childcaring
childe
childed
childer
childes
childfree
childhood
childhood absence epilepsy
childhood disintegrative disorder
childhood epilepsy with occipital paroxysms
childhood muscular dystrophy

Literary usage of Childcare

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Oecd Economic Surveys: United Kingdom by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (2005)
"Flexible childcare: ensuring cost-consciousness while stimulating innovation The working tax credit could be adjusted to strengthen support for childcare ..."

2. Benefits And Wages: OECD Indicatorsby OECD Staff, OECD., Herwig Immervoll by OECD Staff, OECD., Herwig Immervoll (2004)
"Financial support paid directly to parents can be seen as a means to give parents more choice in the use of different childcare arrangements: • Austria ..."

3. Ireland by OECD Staff, OECD (2006)
"is a missed opportunity to help families face the costs of childcare while ... More focus on childcare is warranted There are good reasons for the ..."

4. Germany by OECD Staff, OECD (2004)
"In addition, the German childcare support system, while relatively generous, is geared towards child benefits rather than childcare support. ..."

5. OECD Employment Outlook by OECD Staff (2005)
"the introduction in several states of childcare subsidies.26 For instance, Connelly (1992) and Averett et al. (1997) show that women's labour supply ..."

6. Society at a Glance: Oecd Social Indicators 2006 Edition by Oecd (2007)
"The cost figures are derived by comparing the disposable income, measured after deducting childcare expenses, of a family who does not purchase formal, ..."

7. Parental Leave: The Price of Family Values? by Helen M. Wilkinson, Ivan Briscoe (1996)
"Where childcare arguments begin with mothers' roles as workers ... Policies for childcare take many forms. The main approach has been to support a range of ..."

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