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- noun A
carer
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Examples
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Aid groups say it's impossible to know how many children were orphaned by the earthquake, but USAID estimates the number to be at least 15,000 - with as many or more losing their main care-giver.
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James gives the caveat that a mother with postnatal depression would not be the ideal care-giver: in order for a mother to have her emotional state considered part of this equation, she has to catastrophise it, so she's not just a bit bored, she's on the point of suicide.
Come back 'Superwoman': the lost ideal of combining motherhood and work 2011
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Meanwhile there's her put-upon friend Wendy Julie Halston who seems like a paid care-giver but is instead just one of those people who takes on the burdens of others to distract from their own empty life.
Michael Giltz: Theater: "Olive and the Bitter Herbs" Michael Giltz 2011
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Aid groups say it's impossible to know how many children were orphaned by the earthquake, but USAID estimates the number to be at least 15,000 - with as many or more losing their main care-giver.
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She is totally dependent on George and on their care-giver Annie.
Jackie K. Cooper: The Inheritance of Beauty: A Novel About Aging Jackie K. Cooper 2011
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Meanwhile there's her put-upon friend Wendy Julie Halston who seems like a paid care-giver but is instead just one of those people who takes on the burdens of others to distract from their own empty life.
Michael Giltz: Theater: "Olive and the Bitter Herbs" Michael Giltz 2011
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"Even if it's not entirely true, it's still a lovely story," the 68-year-old retired care-giver says.
Historian Won't Let Scotland's Most Famous Dog Lie James Hookway 2011
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Meanwhile there's her put-upon friend Wendy Julie Halston who seems like a paid care-giver but is instead just one of those people who takes on the burdens of others to distract from their own empty life.
Michael Giltz: Theater: "Olive and the Bitter Herbs" Michael Giltz 2011
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She was the sole day-time care-giver for the final two months, during which time the daughter was no longer able to communicate more than occasional confirmations.
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When a few days before he died George commented to a kindly nurse, "This time the joke's on me", Suzanne DeVos had to explain the reference to the confused care-giver.
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