Sunday, November 24, 2024

Caretaker

 From Jan 2024 journal:

"care-taker" - double meaning.  The practices of being a care-taker.

  • doing regular practices that help me "care for" things like:
    • relationships
    • house
    • garden
    • body - injury, tightness, weakness
    • (I would now add) finances, meals/planning, pantry
According to Longman's Dictionary: (interesting that it means janitor in British English and somone who looks after people in American English... the more common word is 'caregiver' in American, I think)

1 British English someone whose job is to look after a building, especially a school SYN janitor American English2 someone who looks after a house or land while the person who owns it is not there3  caretaker manager/government/boss etc4 American English someone who looks after other people, especially a teacherparentnurse etc SYN carer British English
Webster's Provides this:


1.     : one that gives physical or emotional care and support
served as caretaker to the younger children
2
one that takes care of the house or land of an owner who may be absent
3
one temporarily fulfilling the function of office
caretaker government

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