nurser

Definition of nursernext
as in nurse
a person employed to care for a young child or children volunteered at the hospital as a nurser to hold premature babies

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Noun
  • Although many graduate nursing degrees fall within the lower loan limits, some can cost more than $100,000, including in high-demand fields like nurse anesthesia.
    Collin Binkley, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
  • Another is a nurse who transitions from hospital shifts to part-time caregiving, art classes, fishing, church choir, and volunteering at a community garden.
    Wes Moss, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Their money had gone into a cozy Craftsman house in Menlo Park, and repaying medical-school debt and the salary for their nanny ate up the majority of Greenwald’s take-home pay.
    Melanie Thernstrom, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • Tierra Davis, who is a nanny, was born and raised in Los Angeles but now lives in Inglewood, Calif.
    Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
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“Nurser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nurser. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.

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