DAY CARE CENTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does day care center mean? 

• DAY CARE CENTER (noun)
  The noun DAY CARE CENTER has 1 sense:

1. a nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work

  Familiarity information: DAY CARE CENTER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DAY CARE CENTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

day care center; day nursery

Hypernyms ("day care center" is a kind of...):

baby's room; nursery (a child's room for a baby)

 Context examples 

Places may also be sites that are investigated in the context of health care, social work, public health administration (e.g., buildings, picnic grounds, day care centers, prisons, counties, states, and other focuses of epidemiological events).

(Place, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)