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 teacher, parent, nurse etc SYN carer British English
Webster's Provides this:
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
a caretaker government
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