GREAT CARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does great care mean? 

• GREAT CARE (noun)
  The noun GREAT CARE has 1 sense:

1. more attention and consideration than is normally bestowed by prudent persons

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREAT CARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

More attention and consideration than is normally bestowed by prudent persons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the pilot exercised great care in landing

Hypernyms ("great care" is a kind of...):

care; charge; guardianship; tutelage (attention and management implying responsibility for safety)

 Context examples 

He then folded it up with great care, pressed it smooth between his two hands, put it in his pocket, and seemed to put my aunt away with it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

For this reason, great care is taken to keep the paper secret.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

“I will take great care,” said Little Red-Cap to her mother, and gave her hand on it.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Amy minds me nicely, and I take great care of her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He is exceedingly neat and prim in his ways, dresses always with great care in white drill suits and high brown mosquito-boots, and shaves at least once a day.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott’s conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable to find any satisfactory cause of death.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There, Fanny, you shall carry that parcel for me; take great care of it: do not let it fall; it is a cream cheese, just like the excellent one we had at dinner.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The doctor opened the seals with great care, and there fell out the map of an island, with latitude and longitude, soundings, names of hills and bays and inlets, and every particular that would be needed to bring a ship to a safe anchorage upon its shores.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He put his hand into the breast of his shaggy jacket, and took out with great care a pretty little purse.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)