caretaker - Definition from the SOCIOLOGY topic - SOCIETY

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caretaker
noun

care‧tak‧er See pronunciation table in "How to use dictionary" pages

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[countable]

1 British EnglishBOSES someone whose job is to look after a building, especially a school [= janitor American English]

2 someone who looks after a house or land while the person who owns it is not there

3

caretaker manager/government/boss etc

a manager, government etc that is in charge for a short period of time until another manager or government is chosen

4 American EnglishSS someone who looks after other people, especially a teacher, parent, nurse etc

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