Usually means: Providing support and maintenance consistently.
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  1. caretaking: Merriam-Webster
  2. caretaking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. caretaking: Wordnik
  4. caretaking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. caretaking: Wiktionary
  6. caretaking: Dictionary.com

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  1. caretaking: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (caretaking)

▸ noun:  The act of taking care or taking charge of something.

Similar:
keeping, care, childcaring, stewardship, babycare, infantcare, caregiving, tutelage, care and feeding, minding, more...

Opposite:
neglect, abandonment, disregard, indifference

Adjectives:
maternal, multiple, parental, physical, primary, such, infant, early, more, emotional, excessive

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Similar:
keeping, care, childcaring, stewardship, babycare, infantcare, caregiving, tutelage, care and feeding, minding, more...

Opposite:
neglect, abandonment, disregard, indifference

Adjectives:
maternal, multiple, parental, physical, primary, such, infant, early, more, emotional, excessive



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