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DAYCARE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does daycare mean?
• DAYCARE (noun)
The noun DAYCARE has 1 sense:
1. childcare during the day while parents work
Familiarity information: DAYCARE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Childcare during the day while parents work
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
day care; daycare
Hypernyms ("daycare" is a kind of...):
child care; childcare (a service involving care for other people's children)
Context examples
Each child watched videos that showed either an actress speaking directly to the viewer or scenes of children interacting in daycare.
(Children’s visual engagement is heritable and altered in autism, National Institutes of Health)
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