CARETAKER


Meaning of CARETAKER in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

primary

The preverbal identifications of the Imaginary involve identifications based on symbiotic fusion with the primary caretaker .

All over the world, women were assumed to be the primary caretakers of children.

Apparently she accepted that she was the primary caretaker of her children and the linchpin of family life.

■ NOUN

boss

A caretaker boss is expected to be named today.

And caretaker boss Barrow said he was a little disappointed at not taking three points!

capacity

No party won an absolute majority and the outgoing government remained in office in a caretaker capacity as inter-party negotiations took place.

The outgoing administration was asked to stay on meanwhile in a caretaker capacity .

He was succeeded in a caretaker capacity by his deputy, David Gandy.

It finally did so on Dec. 14 and asked the government to continue in office in a caretaker capacity .

Hrawi asked Hoss to continue as Prime Minister in a caretaker capacity until a new government was formed.

government

The caretaker government had earlier introduced new laws increasing the penalties for election offences.

They sought extra-parliamentary means to oust Chavalit, establish a caretaker government and hold a new election.

All three parties undertook to support the caretaker government until the elections.

manager

A player representation, led by caretaker manager Edwin Stein, received a rapturous welcome.

In the meantime, his assistant, Mr Ronnie Moran, would act as caretaker manager .

school

They were the school caretakers but my job helping them didn't last long.

The accused, a school caretaker , fired an air gun at some boys who were trespassing.

At the back of the church knelt Mrs Duffy, the school caretaker , saying her beads.

Mr Beyga, a former school caretaker , served on Knowsley Borough Council for 14 years.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Apparently she accepted that she was the primary caretaker of her children and the linchpin of family life.

Baptist Nunn, the caretaker of Bigshot Rayle and Lodge was receiving threats of extortion from the gang.

Higher up the hill the streets were full of office buildings, so that the parishioners were caretakers.

Poole and Bowman had often humorously referred to them-selves as caretakers or janitors aboard a ship that could really run itself.

The caretaker , an old man and frightened by what he saw, went to his wife who then called the police.

The infant can feel at one with its care-taker because the caretaker identifies with the needs of the infant.

The other, the caretaker said, had been empty since 1974 and had housed a testing facility for the Navy.

When they had fruitlessly exhausted their task, Myeloski called the caretaker to guide them round the rest of the palace.

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