TO LOOK AFTER

Definition: TO LOOK AFTER

TO LOOK AFTER

1. (a) To attend to; to take care of; as, to look after children. (b) To expect; to be in a state of expectation. Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth. --Luke xxi. 26. (c) To seek; to search. My subject does not oblige me to look after the water, or point forth the place where to it is now retreated. --Woodward.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO LOOK AFTER

You are the twelfth in a long line of governesses who have come here to look after my children since their mother died. (The Sound of Music; writing credit: Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein II)

While we're at the Halloween ball, we need someone to look after Sabrina. (Sabrina the Animated Series; writing credit: Josh Stolberg)

Somebody has to look after my daughter and grandchild, while you're out corrausing with a bunch of neanderthals. (The Flintstones; writing credit: Tom S. Parker; Jim Jennewein)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Commonsense Instrument Care: How to Look After Your Violin, Viola or Cello, and Bow (reference)

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Great skill is needed to look after this delicate little human being ... / WHO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

The Rebel dodge to cover the retreat into Virginia. Flag of truce to look after the wounded. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Government is every where antecedent to records, and letters seldom come in amongst a people till a long continuation of civil society has, by other more necessary arts, provided for their safety, ease, and plenty: and then they begin to look after the history of their founders, and search into their original, when they have outlived the memory of it: for it is with commonwealths as with particular persons, they are commonly ignorant of their own births and infancies: and if they know any thing of their original, they are beholden for it, to the accidental records that others have kept of it. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

To this purpose, he sent his wife before him, remaining himself to look after some necessary affairs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Sri Lanka

Employers are becoming conscious of the need to look after their human resources, and more effort is being taken to ensure that workers feel motivated and cared for. (references)

Women

Pakistan

Similarly a study by the NWFP directorate of primary education concluded that most girls in rural areas do not go to school because they have to look after the household while their mothers help in the fields. (references)

Worker Rights

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Such labor includes family-oriented work where children are made to look after younger siblings or ailing parents and grandparents at the expense of their schooling. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Chinese 

關照 (care, concern, to keep an eye on), 看 (it depends, think, to guard, to look at, to see, to take care of, to watch, whirlwind), 照顧 (show some consideration, takecare of, to attend to), 管 (pipe, to be in charge of, to control, to manage, to run, to take care, tube), �"�勞 (to work hard). (various references)

Danish

afbryde sin erhvervsaktivitet for at tage sig af sine børns uddannelse (to take a break from work to look after the children). (various references)

Dutch

de carrière onderbreken i.v.m.het opvoeden van kinderen (to take a break from work to look after the children). (various references)

French

interrompre son activité professionnelle pour se consacrer � l'éducation des enfants (to take a break from work to look after the children). (various references)

German

sorgen für (book, cherish, enforce, lay on, line up, organize, provide, provide for, to care for, to see to, to take care of), nachsehen (audit, check, check back, check up on, consult, examine, gaze after, have a look, look, look and see, look for, look up, see, supervise, to look up, verify, watch). (various references)

Greek 

διακόπτω την επαγγελματική μου δραστηριότητα για να αφοσιωθώ στην ανατροφή των παιδιών (to take a break from work to look after the children). (various references)

Hungarian

utánanéz (consult, see about, to attend to sg, to check up, to see about, to see after), gondoz (care, keep, look after, to attend, to enshrine, to nurse, to tend), gondoskodik (administer, take charge of, to attend to sg, to cater, to ensure, to provide, to provide against sg, to see after, to see sy off the premises, to see to). (various references)

Italian

interrompere l'attivit� professionale per dedicarsi all'educazione dei figli (to take a break from work to look after the children). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

看る (to take care of), 手掛ける (to handle, to have experience with, to manage, to rear, to work with). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

みる (a type of seaweed, to examine, to see, to take care of, to view, to watch), てがける (to do, to handle, to have experience with, to make, to manage, to produce, to rear, to work on, to work with). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay ooklay afteray

Portuguese

interromper a sua actividade profissional para se consagrar � educação dos filhos (to take a break from work to look after the children). (various references)

Spanish

interrumpir el ejercicio de una actividad profesional para dedicarse al cuidado de los hijos (to take a break from work to look after the children). (various references)

1. la. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: flatter, floater, footler, refloat, rootlet, tootler.

-5 letters: falter, fatter, flaker, florae, floret, foetal, foetor, folate, footer, footle, latter, loafer, lofter, looker, looter, rattle, relook, retook, retool, rotate, talker, tooler, tooter, tootle.

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