n.
establishment providing care or service
1) to manage, operate, ran a ~
2) a convalescent; detention; funeral ( AE ); nursing; remand ( BE ); rest; retirement ~
residence
3) to build; establish a ~
4) to provide a ~ for
5) to make one's ~ at, in
6) an ancestral; country; mobile; summer; winter ~
7) a ~ for, to (San Francisco was ~ to them for years)
8) at ~ (she is never at ~; AE also has: she is never ~)
family
9) a broken; foster; good ~
misc.
10) to romp ~ ('to score an easy victory'); she is at ~ in Greek literature; to go ~
USAGE NOTE: In many instances ~ is used as an adverb - to go ~; to romp ~ , etc.