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caretaker

[kair-tey-ker] / ˈkɛərˌteɪ kər /
NOUN
person who maintains something
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"Its people have tended to caretake and allow the bureaucracy to slowly grow. It is as influential as the person who wields that chair wants to make it."

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2025

New administrators parachuted in to caretake a vast sprawling business would be ill-equipped to take on the task of turning around a company whose new management insists had formulated a clear plan.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2025

The leadership of the Tk’emlups community “acknowledges their responsibility to caretake for these lost children,” Casimir said.

From Seattle Times • May 29, 2021

The show saw Frasier move to his hometown of Seattle to take care of his former police officer father alongside his brother, Niles Crane, and his father’s caretake, Daphne Moon.

From Fox News • Feb. 1, 2021




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