Look After

Definition: Look After

Look After

Verb

1. Keep under careful scrutiny; "Keep an eye on this prisoner!".

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

Attention

Verb: be attentive; Adjective: attend, advert to, observe, look, see, view, remark, notice, regard, take notice, mark; give attention to, pay attention to, pay heed to, give heed to; incline an ear to, lend an ear to; trouble one's head about; give a thought to, animadvert to; occupy oneself with; contemplate; (think of); look at, look to, look after, look into, look over; see to; turn the mind to, bend the mind to, apply the mind to, direct the mind to, give the mind to, turn the eye to, bend the eye to, apply the eye to, direct the eye to, give the eye to, turn the attention to, bend the attention to, apply the attention to, direct the attention to, give the attention to; have an eye to, have in one's eye; bear in mind; take into account, take into consideration; keep in sight, keep in view; have regard to, heed, mind, take cognizance of entertain, recognize; make note of, take note of; note.

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.

Direction

Superintend, supervise; overlook, control, keep in order, look after, see to, legislate for; administer, ministrate; matronize; have the care of, have the charge of; be in charge of, have charge of, take the direction; boss, boss one around; pull the strings, pull the wires; rule; (command); have the direction, hold office, hold the portfolio; preside, preside at the board; take the chair, occupy the chair, be in the chair; pull the stroke oar.

Economy

Save money, invest money; put out to interest; provide for a rainy day, save for a rainy day, provide against a rainy day, save against a rainy day; feather one's nest; look after the main chance.

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.

Skill

Look after the main chance; cut one's coat according to one's cloth; live by one's wits; exercise one's discretion, feather the oar, sail near the wind; stoop to conquer; (cunning); play one's cards well, play one's best card; hit the right nail on the head, put the saddle on the right horse.

Crosswords: 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)

You look after her while I go break Crais's neck. (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)

The public can look after itself. (The Bank; writing credit: Robert Connolly)

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

• PerPETual Care: Who Will Look after Your Pets If You're Not Around? (reference)

• Top Tax Saving Ideas for Today's Small Business: A Fresh Look After Tax Reform Legislation: Includes 1993 Tax Law Updates (Psi Successful Business) (reference)

• Young Scientist Book of the Human Body: How It Works and How to Look After It (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

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.

Look after my folks / Frank Brangwyn A.R.A. autolithograph ; American Lithographic Co. N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

The equality of a simple poor way of living, confining their desires within the narrow bounds of each man's small property, made few controversies, and so no need of many laws to decide them, or variety of officers to superintend the process, or look after the execution of justice, where there were but few trespasses, and few offenders. (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

Pakistan

Overseas suppliers may look after the interests of their local agents in various ways. (references)

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.

Expressions using "look after": look after babies ♦ look after number one ♦ look after of ♦ look after oneself ♦ look after the inner man ♦ look after the main chance ♦ look after yourself ♦ To look after. Additional references.

Afrikaans

behartig (look). (various references)

Albanian

merrem me (address oneself to, engage, engage in, follow, handle, see to, settle down to), kujdesem për (cater, cater for, do for, Foster, mother, nurse, provide, provide for, see about, see to, take care of, tend). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حافظ (custodian, lie low, maintain, preservative, preserve, take part, tutelary), ‏سهر (attend, lookout, stay up, vigil, wake, wakefulness, watch, watchfulness), ‏عنى (attend, denote, imply, import, manage, mean, see, signify, take care of, watch), ‏إهتم (attend, do, go in for, heed, interest, reck), ‏إعتنى (attend, care, care about, groom, interest, mean, see to, tend), ‏راقب (blue pencil, case, close, control, keep an eye on, look, look on, mind, monitor, observe, overlook, oversee, proctor, spy, stake, superintend, supervise, tend, watch). (various references)

Bulgarian 

следвам с поглед, грижа се за (administer to, do for, fend for, fend for oneself, keep, look to, mind, nurse, see after, take care of, tend), наглеждам (monitor, superintend, supervise, watch over), погледам (look for a while, take care of, watch for a while). (various references)

Chinese 

顧 (take into consideration, to attend to). (various references)

Czech

starat se o (attend to, care for, cherish, maintain, mind, take care of), postarat se o (see about, see to), peèovat o (attend on, care for, take care of, tend), opatrovat (cherish, guard, take care of, tend), dohlížet na (look, monitor), dohlížet (inspect, oversee, superintend, supervise). (various references)

Danish

se after (nurse). (various references)

Dutch

waken over (guard, keep, watch over), verzorgen (attend, nurse, tend to), oppassen (advert, be careful, nurse, pay attention, pay attention to, take care, watch out for), naogen (follow up with one's eyes), nakýken (audit, check, check up on, examine, follow up with one's eyes, revise, supervise, verify), hoeden (guard, keep, watch over), de wacht hebben (guard, keep, watch over), bewaren (conserve, guard, keep, maintain, preserve, put away, store, watch over), bewaken (guard, keep, watch over), behartigen. (various references)

Esperanto

varti (nurse), prizorgi, postrigardi (follow up with one's eyes), gardi (guard, keep, watch over). (various references)

Faeroese

verja (defend, guard, keep, protect, watch over), síggja til, røkja (care for, cure, nurse, treat), hava í hondum, ansa eftir (away we go, care, guard, keep, let's start, nurse, see, take care, watch over, worry). (various references)

Finnish

hoitaa (attend, manage, nurse, run, see to, take care of, tend, tend to, treat). (various references)

French

garder, soigner. (various references)

Frisian

beweitsje (guard, keep, watch over). (various references)

German

warten (abide, attend, await, camp-on, expect, hang about, hold off, hold on, lookouts, maintain, nurse, service, tend, tend to, to service, wait, wait about, wait around, wait for, waiting), versorgen (accommodate, care for, feed, groom, keep, maintain, provide, provide for, purvey, serve, settle, settle down, supply, support, take care of, to supply), hüten (be accustomed, beware, guard, keep, mind, tend, to beware, treasure, uphold, watch over), behüten (guard, keep, protect, save, watch over). (various references)

Greek 

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

Hebrew 

ל�"ש�'יח (care, look out, monitor, notice, oversee, regard, supervise, tend, watch), לטפל ב- (take care of, tamper, tend). (various references)

Hungarian

vigyáz valakire, vigyáz (be careful, look out, oversee, regard, take care, to attend, to attend to sy, to mind, to pay attention, to play injun, to see after, to stand on one's guard), gondoz (care, keep, to attend, to enshrine, to look after, to nurse, to tend), gondoskodik valakirõl. (various references)

Indonesian

menggilai (take care), menggembala (tend), memelihara (grow, keep, maintain, take care, tend), membela (defend, plead, protect), emong (care for, direct an enterprise). (various references)

Italian

badare (be careful, look, nurse, pay attention, watch). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

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

Japanese Katakana 

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

Manx

jeeaghyn mysh, bochillaght (drove, herd, shepherd). (various references)

Papiamen

vigilá (guard, keep, watch over). (various references)

Pig Latin

ooklay afteray

Polish

zadbać. (various references)

Portuguese

vigiar (guard, have an eye on, keep, keep an eye on, keep tabs on, look to, mind, observe, oversee, scout, supervise, tend, wake, watch, watch over), velar (film, guard, keep, scumble, veil, velar, wake, watch, watch over), tratar (attend, cherish, deal, deal with, do, handle, manage, misuse, nurse, process, size, treat), procurar (browse, come after, court, dub, ensue, find out, fish, fossick, get, hunt up, look for, look up, nose, obtrude, pursue, quest, rake, rake up, search, search after, search for, seek), guardar (bestow, bin, bosom, coffer, coffin, conserve, defend, guard, keep, lay up, maintain, observe, preserve, protect, put, put away, reserve, retain, save, shield, stow, tend, tuck, watch over), cuidardecriança (nurse), cuidar de (cater to, keep, mind, take care of, tend). (various references)

Romanian

supraveghea (chaperon, direct, keep under, keep watch, manage, observe, overlook, oversee, see, superintend, supervise, watch), se îngriji de (attend, care, do for, fend, keep, mind, nurse, provide for, see about smth.), avea grijã de (administer to, care, care for, carry, keep, look towards, mind, nurse, overlook, see, see after, take care of). (various references)

Russian 

следить (follow up, keep track, keep track of, overlook, trace, track, watch), заботиться (attend, care, care about, do a thing, exercise care, mind, reck, see to, see to it, study, take care of). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

starati se, paziti (be careful, cherish, heed, look out, mind, pay attention, ware, watch). (various references)

Spanish

vigilar (follow, guard, keep, keep an eye on, look, mind, overlook, patrol, police, trace, trail, watch, watch over), cuidar de (Shepherd), atender a (administer to, advert, answer, cater for, minister, operate, pay attention, pay attention to, see about, see to, service, take care of, treat, watch out for). (various references)

Sranan

wakti (advert, guard, keep, pay attention, pay attention to, watch out for, watch over). (various references)

Swedish

tillse, sköta (attend, attend to, attendance, conduct, do one's work, doctor, drift net, hold, keep, mind, nurse, operate, serve, take care of, tend, tend to, wield), passa (become, befit, consort, fit, go, mind, pass, serve, sit, suit, tend). (various references)

Turkish

ilgilenmek (be hot for, be interested in, be into, care, concern oneself, deal, do, nibble, nurse, pay attention to, see about, see after, see to, take care of, weigh in), idare etmek (administer, administrate, bestride, boss, conduct, content oneself, control, direct, govern, guide, handle, husband, make both ends meet, make do, make it do, make out, make shift, manage, manipulate, mastermind, officer, quarterback, rein in, rub, rub along, rule, scrape along, spin out, steer, supervise), bakmak (answer, attend, behold, care for, concern oneself, consider, consult, deem, do for, face, feed, fend for, find, Foster, front, front on to, give a look, groom, have a frontage on, have a look-see, keep, look, look at, look on, look out, look through, look upon, maintain, make sure, nurse, overlook, put out to nurse, refer, regard, scan, see, see to, set eyes on, sight, sit in, suckle, superintend, supervise, support, survey, take a gander, take a look, take a look at, tend, turn up, view, wait on, wait upon, watch), çekip çevirmek (keep in order, manage, mastermind). (various references)

Turkmen 

seretmek (look at). (various references)

Ukrainian

стежити поглядом. (various references)

Xhosa

uziphathe (You look after). (various references)

consul, consulam, consulat, consulatur, consule, consulendum, consulens, consulere, consulerentque, consuleret, consuleretis, consulite, consultum, consuluerunt, consulueruntque, consuluisti, consuluit, consuluitque, inserviebant, inserviebat. (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

-2 letters: floater, footler, refloat.

-3 letters: falter, flaker, florae, floret, foetal, foetor, folate, footer, footle, loafer, lofter, looker, looter, relook, retook, retool, talker, tooler.

-4 letters: afoot, afore, after, alert, aloft, aloof, alter, artel, faker, farle, feral, fetal, fetor, flake, flare, float, floor, flora, flota, forte, freak, karoo, ketol, kloof, korat, kraft, laker, later, latke, loofa.