Take Care

Definition: Take Care

Take Care

Verb

1. Be careful, prudent, or watchful; "Take care when you cross the street!".

2. Be in charge of or deal with; "She takes care of all the necessary arrangements".

3. Take charge of or deal with; "Could you see about lunch?"; "I must attend to this matter"; "She took care of this business".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Take Care

Aid

Serve; do service to, tender to, pander to; administer to, subminister to, minister to; tend, attend, wait on; take care of; entertain; smooth the bed of death.

Care

Verb: be careful; Adjective: reck; take care; (be cautious); pay attention to; take care of; look to, look after, see to, see after; keep an eye on, keep a sharp eye on; chaperon, matronize, play gooseberry; keep watch, keep watch and ward; mount guard, set watch, watch; keep in sight, keep in view; mind, mind one's business.

Caution

Verb: be cautious; Adjective: take care, take heed, take good care; have a care mind, what one is about; be on one's guard; (keep watch); "make assurance doubly sure".

Defense

Verb: defend, forfend, fend; shield, screen, shroud; engarrison; fend round; (circumscribe); fence, entrench, intrench; guard; (keep safe); guard against; take care of; (vigilance); bear harmless; fend off, keep off, ward off, beat off, beat back; hinder.

Neglect

Verb: be negligent; Adjective: take no care of; (take care of; ); neglect; let slip,let go; lay aside, set aside, cst aside, put aside; keep out of sight, put out of sight; lose sight of.

Preservation

Verb: preserve, maintain, keep, sustain, support, hold; keep up, keep alive; refrigerate, keep on ice;not willingly let die; bank up; nurse; save, rescue; be safe, make safe; take care of; (care); guard; (defend).

Safety

Make safe, render safe; Adjective:; protect; take care of; (care); preserve; cover, screen, shelter, shroud, flank, ward; guard; (defend); secure; (restrain); entrench, intrench, fence round; (circumscribe); house, nestle, ensconce; take charge of.

Selfishness

Verb: be selfish; Adjective: please oneself, indulge oneself, coddle oneself; consult one's own wishes, consult one's own pleasure; look after one's own interest; feather one's nest; take care of number one, have an eye to the main chance, know on which side one's bread is buttered; give an inch and take an ell.

Warning

Interjection: beware! ware! take care! look out! fore!, mind what you are about!, take care what you are about! mind!

Crosswords: Take Care

Who will take care of me my love, my dark angel, when you are gone? (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

I'll take care of the squealing, wretched, pinhead puppets of Gotham! (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters)

I'll take care of the police. (Terminator 2: Judgment Day; writing credit: James Cameron; William Wisher Jr.)

Take care now. (Crocodile Dundee; writing credit: John Cornell; Paul Hogan)

I take care of you Doc. Haven't I always been a good woman to you? (Tombstone; writing credit: Kevin Jarre.)

I wanna take care of you (All 4 Love; performing artist: Color Me Badd)

Think he's gonna take care of you (Dreamtime; performing artist: Daryl Hall)

To take some time, and take care of me (Nobody's Supposed To Be Here (Dance Mix); performing artist: Deborah Cox)

Will take care of this business I need to attend to, cuz my rent's due (Keep Their Headz Ringin; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

Gotta keep cool, now gotta take care (Radar Love; performing artist: Golden Earring)

Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Take care of your character, and your reputation will take care of itself. (references; author: unknown)

A person is grown up not when he can take care of himself, but when he can take care of others. (references; author: unknown)

Take Care of My Little Girl (1951)

You Take Care Now (1989)

I'm Gonna Take Care of Everything (performing artist: Rubicon)

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

Books

• Arthritis: A Take Care of Yourself Health Guide for Understanding Your Arthritis (reference)

• Collies: How to Take Care of Them and to Understand Them (reference)

• Creating and Sustaining a Superior Customer Service Organization: A Book About Taking Care of the People Who Take Care of the Customers (reference)

• Taking Care of Parents Who Didn't Take Care of You: Making Peace With Aging Parents (reference)

• The Guilt-Free Guide to Your New Life As a Mom: Practical Ways to Take Care of Yourself, Your Life & Your Baby-All at the Same Time (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Take Care (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• God Will Take Care of You/Think of God (reference)

• There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

[Nurse encouraging a mother to let her children learn to help take care of themselves]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Take care of your baby right from the start. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

"Let every one take care of himself" (As the Jack ass said when he was dancing among the chickens). Credit: Library of Congress.

I must have something to take care of, he said. Credit: Library of Congress.

You'll have to bury her and take care of Jacky. Credit: Library of Congress.

I guess we can take care of both ends, and the middle too, eh, Charlie?. Credit: Library of Congress.

Will you take care of him for the duration?. Credit: Library of Congress.

High school Victory Corps. In true commando style, this young student at Flushing High School, Queens, New York, is learning to take care of himself no matter what the circumstances may be. High cliffs and walls won't stop him when he is old enough to ser. Credit: Library of Congress.

Prefabricated houses built by FSA (Farm Security Administration) to take care of some of the colored families that had to move out of the area taken over by the Army in Caroline County, Milford, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Count Screwloose. "Ah! 'Groom wanted to take care of a horse.'". Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

This is in effect no more than to bid them first be slaves, and then to take care of their liberty; and when their chains are on, tell them, they may act like freemen. (Second Treatise of Government)

He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States. (reference)

The Communists fight for the attainment of the immediate aims, for the enforcement of the momentary interests of the working class; but in the movement of the present, they also represent and take care of the future of that movement. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Indeed you should take care of yourself as well as of your friend.

Take care of a candle.

Take care! At the first corner, Grenetat will make a Caudine Forks.

Take care of the stuff.

Glumdalclitch stood upon a stool on the floor, near my table, to assist and take care of me.

If I have got to drag my trap, I will take care that it be a light one and do not nip me in a vital part.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

To improve the chances of surviving with heart failure, patients must take care of themselves. (references)

They will need to learn how to take care of the stoma and how to change the bag that collects stool. (references)

He or she can let you know what you need to do this year-and in the future-to take care of your health. (references)

Business

It is essential that exporters take care to fill out documents properly to avoid costly delays in customs clearance. (references)

A full service program should be available through a network of dealers specially trained to take care of the vehicle. (references)

To take care of the potentially high growth, experts point out that the import model may not work well with PC vendors. (references)

Economic History

Mexico

Take care before granting "open account" treatment. (references)

Norway

The country is generally accessible by air and a number of small airfields take care of local needs. (references)

Honduras

Firms should take care to investigate the creditworthiness and reputation of potential partners before granting credit. (references)

Human Rights

Nicaragua

The police department volunteered to take care of the children's medical expenses at the local hospital. (references)

Political Economy

KUWAIT

If U.S. firms receive requests for boycott-related information from private Kuwaiti firms or Kuwaiti public officials, they are advised to inform the embassy of the request, report the request as required by law to the U.S. Department of Commerce, and take care to comply with all other requirements of the U.S. anti-boycott laws. (references)

Trade

Kuwait

In such cases, U.S. firms should advise the Embassy of the request, report the request to the U.S. Department of Commerce and take care to comply with all requirements of the U.S. anti-boycott laws. (references)

Travel

West Bank

Although visitors should take care to ensure that local restaurants have good refrigeration in the summer, most restaurants that U.S. businessmen will visit observe acceptable health standards. (references)

Worker Rights

Liberia

Throughout rural areas--particularly where there were no schools--small children continued to assist their parents as vendors in local markets or on the streets, to take care of younger brothers and sisters, and to work on family subsistence farms. (references)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "take care": take care for ♦ take care of ♦ take care of number one ♦ take care of oneself ♦ take care of smb. ♦ take care of smth. ♦ take care of yourself! ♦ To take care ♦ To take care of. Additional references.

Afrikaans

sorg (care, see, take, worry). (various references)

Albanian

kujdes (care, carefulness, caution, cautiousness, chariness, circumspection, deliberation, diligence, guard, lo, look out, nursing, pains, regard, safeguard, tendance, thought, treatment, trust, wariness), kini kujdes, arrij (achieve, aggregate, amount, appear, arrive, attain, catch, catch up, come, come at, come off, develop, end up, exact, gain, gain on, get, get along, get around, get at, get down, get on, get through, go in for, grow up, hit, make, obtain, overreach, overtake, reach, run up, seek for, steal, succeed, take, top, total, touch). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حذر (admonish, advise, alert, alertness, be careful, be wise, beware, cagey, calculating, calculation, canny, care, careful, caution, cautious, cautiousness, chariness, chary, considerate, discreet, discreetness, discretion, exhort, fabian, forewarn, guard, guarded, guarding, heedful, leery, look behind, look out, lookout, mind, on the alert, on the lookout, prudence, prudent, safe, shy, shyness, sound an alarm, suspicious, vigilance, vigilant, wariness, warn, wary, watch, wide awake), ‏خلي بالك, ‏بدونك. (various references)

Basque

zaindu (nurse to, take care of to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

внимавай (beware, look ahead, look out, watch it), пази се (look ahead, watch out). (various references)

Chinese 

過來 (to be able to take care of, to come over, to come up, to handle, to manage), 處置 (handle; take care of, punish), 面面俱到 (take care of everything; handle everything), 顧不得 (unable to take care of or change), 看 (it depends, think, to guard, to look after, to look at, to see, to take care of, to watch, whirlwind), 照應 (take care of), 當心 (to look out, to take care), 管 (pipe, to be in charge of, to control, to look after, to manage, to run, to take care, tube), 包辦 (run the whole show, take care of everything concerning a job), 搞 (to do, to get hold of, to go in for, to make, to set up, to take care of), 查處 (investigate and take care of), 會同 (jointly take care of a matter), 招呼 (call out to sb, greet sb, inform sb; instruct sb to do sth, take care of sb), 保重 (take care of oneself), 保管 (certainly, surely, take care of). (various references)

Czech

starat se (care, Chevy, fend for oneself, see to), opatrujte se. (various references)

Danish

Faellesskabets intitutioner drager omsorg for,at den oekonomiske og sociale udvikling af disse omraader muliggoeres (the institutions of the Community will take care that....the economic and social development of these areas is made possible), disse institutioner paaser,at stabiliteten ikke bringes i fare (these institutions shall take care not to prejudice the stability), bryde sig om (care about, take care of). (various references)

Dutch

zorgen (care, see, worries, worry), zorg dragen (care, see, worry), zich bekommeren (care, see, worry), oppassen (advert, be careful, look after, nurse, pay attention, pay attention to, watch out for), bezorgd zijn (worry), bezorgd zýn (care, see, worry). (various references)

Esperanto

zorgi (care, see, worry), singardi (be careful). (various references)

Faeroese

syrgja fyri (care, see, worry), leggja seg eftir (care, see, worry), ansa eftir (away we go, care, guard, keep, let's start, look after, nurse, see, watch over, worry). (various references)

Finnish

huolehtia (arrange, attend to, be anxious, care, look after, see, see to, worry). (various references)

French

s'occuper. (various references)

German

sorgen (be accustomed, be in the habit, care, care for, cares, cater, ensure, fend, look after, pains, provide, see, solicitudes, sorrows, supply, tend, worries, worry). (various references)

Greek 

φροντίζω (care, care for, cater for, fend for, keep an eye on, look after, mind, nurse, reck, see about, see to, service, ten, tend). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשמור על עצמו (take care of number one), לשים לב (attend, heed, mind, pay attention, reck, remark, take notice), ז�"ירות (care, carefulness, caution, discreetness, discretion, look out, mind, observation, prudence, steady, wariness). (various references)

Hungarian

vigyázz magadra, vigyáz (be careful, look after, look out, oversee, regard, to attend, to attend to sy, to mind, to pay attention, to play injun, to see after, to stand on one's guard). (various references)

Indonesian

menjaga (keep, oversee, watch over), menggilai (look after), memelihara (grow, keep, look after, maintain, tend). (various references)

Italian

vedere (behold, decide, examine, feel, have a look at, see, see oneself, to see, understand, view, wait), provvedere (arrange, arrange for, cater, fend, get ready, minister, provide, provide for, provide oneself, purvey, stock, store, supply), proteggere (cover, defend, Favor, favour, guard, muffle, overshadow, patronise, patronize, preserve, promote, protect, scorers, screen, shade, shelter, shield, ward), pensare (bear in mind, believe, consider, debate, decide, deem, find, hold, imagine, mean, mind, reasoning, see, see to, think), interessarsi (care), governare (conduct, control, govern, restrain, rule, run, steer, sway), custodire (enshrine, guard, herd, keep, look after, preserve, ward), curare (attend, curarize, cure, doctor, edit, follow a treatment, heal, look after of, make sure, medicate, nurse, nursing, tend to, treat). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

気�'付けて (be careful). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

き�'つけて (be careful). (various references)

Occitan

sonhar (nurse, take care of). (various references)

Papiamen

sòru (care, see, worry). (various references)

Pig Latin

aketay arecay

Polish

troszczyć się, dbać. (various references)

Portuguese

tutelar (care, tutelar, worry), zelar (care, nurse, worry), preocupar‐se (care, worry), cuidar (attend, care, cherish, cradle, lap, nurse, worry). (various references)

Romanian

se îngrijora (care, see, worry), ia seamã, atenţiune (attention, be careful, have a care, pay attention), îngriji (attend, breed, care, doctor, groom, keep, nurse, raise, rear, see, tend, worry). (various references)

Russian 

беречь (guard against, keep safe, save), берегись (look out). (various references)

Scottish

saodaich (take care of, tend). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

brinuti, čuvaj se (beware of). (various references)

Sotho

itlhokomele (take care of yourself). (various references)

Spanish

cuidar (attend, babysit, care, fondle, groom, look after, look to, mind, nurse, pay attention, reck, see, tend, tend to, worry). (various references)

Sranan

span (care, see, worry), sorgu (care, concern, see, worry). (various references)

Swedish

var rädd om dig, ondgöra. (various references)

Turkish

kendine iyi bak (take care of yourself), ihmal etmemek (be careful to, remember), gayret etmek (cultivate, endeavor, endeavour, go for, hump, hump oneself, jockey for, make an effort, rustle, strain, strain after, strain at, strive, study, try), güle güle (au revoir, ave, bye bye, farewell, good bye, goodbye, take care of yourself), dikkatli olmak (be careful, be particular about, give heed to, keep one's eyes skinned, mind, pay heed to, take heed, watch out), dikkat etmek (be careful, behold, give heed to, heed, keep an eye on, look out, look sharp, look to, make a point of, mind, note, notice, pay attention to, pay heed to, remark, take care of, take heed, take heed of, ware, watch, watch one's step, watch out), özen göstermek (care, cross one's t's, elaborate, fuss, make a point of, nurse, take care of, take pains). (various references)

Turkmen 

sagdynlaюdyrmak (cure, take care of, treat), aяamak (take care of). (various references)

Ukrainian

турбуватися (bother, care, feel bad, trouble). (various references)

Welsh

ymorol (attend to, see to it, seek), gofalu (care, mind), carco. (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: caretake.

-1 letter: acerate, teacake.

-2 letters: aerate, carate, cerate, create, ecarte, karate, racket, retack, retake, tacker.

-3 letters: aceta, ackee, areae, areca, arete, carat, caret, carte, cater, crake, crate, creak, creek, eater, erect, karat, rakee, react, reata, recta, taker, terce, trace, track.

-4 letters: acre, acta, akee, arak, area, cake, care, cark, cart, cate, cere, cete, kart, kata, keet.

+1 letter: caretaken, caretaker, caretakes.

+2 letters: caretakers, reattacked.

+3 letters: leatherback, marketplace, racetracker.

+4 letters: cabinetmaker, leatherbacks, marketplaces, racetrackers.

+5 letters: backscattered, cabinetmakers, megakaryocyte, quarterbacked.