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caring

 adjective
     
Related topics: Nurses, Doctors, etc
car‧ing
1 thinking about what other people need or want and trying to help them [↪ care]:
a warm and caring man
a caring attitude
The school aims to provide a caring environment.
2MN [only before noun] involving the job of looking after other people:
Many of the caring professions are badly paid.
More men are taking on a caring role.
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