Definition of Day care

1. Noun. Childcare during the day while parents work.

Exact synonyms: Daycare
Generic synonyms: Child Care, Childcare

Medical Definition of Day care

1. Institutional health care of patients during the day. The patients return home at night. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Day Care

day after day
day after tomorrow
day and age
day and night
day bed
day beds
day before yesterday
day blind
day blindness
day boarder
day book
day boy
day boys
day by day
day camp
day care (current term)
day care center
day care centers
day count convention
day for night
day game
day hospital
day in, day out
day in and day out
day in day out
day in the sun
day jessamine
day job
day labor
day laborer

Literary usage of Day care

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

1. Employers and Child Care: Benefiting Work and Family (1994)
"Family day care Network A family day care network is a group of family day ... Usually the family day care homes are evaluated before being admitted to the ..."

2. Population Profile of the U.S., 1997 by Andrea Curry, Karen Mills, Janice Valdisera (2000)
"Family day care has also been a consistent source of child care arrangements, providing 23 percent of all arrangements for preschoolers in 1977 and 1988. ..."

3. Workforce 2000: Work and Workers for the 21st Century by DIANE Publishing Company, William B. Johnstone, Arnold E. Packer (1993)
"While the challenge is great for a two-parent family with healthy children and enough money for day care, the problems can be overwhelming for a single ..."

4. Federal Hiring from the Welfare Rolls: Congressional Hearings edited by John L. Mica (1999)
"But they are spending a lot of money on day care and they are perfectly willing to ... But you are saying, then, that day care does help in Wisconsin then? ..."

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