care package

noun

|Updated on: 15 Aug 2018

Definition of care package

: a package of useful or pleasurable items that is sent or given as a gift to another (such as a college student)

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Recent Examples of care package from the Web

Comfort Cases on Thursday sent the Bristow complex 50 care packages; Jacoby said staffers plan to distribute the backpacks Monday.

— hannah natanson, Washington Post, "Once a foster child himself, he’s launched a drive to show every separated border child someone cares," 2 July 2018
Leakes even thanked the mother of six on Wednesday for a care package sent her way.

— dave quinn, PEOPLE.com, "NeNe Leakes Shows Off Gift from Kim Zolciak-Biermann Days After Publicly Thanking Former Rival," 21 June 2018
Some Republicans, including Sen. Ron Johnson (R., Wis.), have voiced interest in a repeal, and others have talked about passing a health-care package in coming months.

— stephanie armour, WSJ, "Conservatives Make New Push to Repeal Affordable Care Act," 19 June 2018
Golden State Warriors assistant coach Mike Brown volunteered to assemble care packages for military members serving overseas.

— aj neuharth-keusch, USA TODAY, "'We have your back': Ex-NBA All-Star Rip Hamilton furthers league's military involvement," 13 June 2018
Last week the website Abuela Mami Miami — a subscription service for Cuban care packages owned by a friend of one of the owners — shot a video of the making of the Cafetera Ringthat had been shared more than 2,700 times on Facebook.

— carlos frias, miamiherald, "Is this Cuban coffee Cafetera Ring the most-Miami way to ask her to marry you? | Miami Herald," 24 Apr. 2018
After a carefully packed Christmas care package from her mother-in-law disappeared from outside her Middle River home this past holiday season, Amy Santopietro said didn’t think the gifts would ever be returned.

— jessica anderson, baltimoresun.com, "Middle River family cherishes quilt that weaves their lives to fallen Baltimore County Off. Amy Caprio," 25 May 2018
Navy corpsman Rose Sanchez of Chula Vista decorated care packages with her daughters, Breyanah, 14, and Delainy, 13.

— deborah sullivan brennan, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Veterans Museum festival celebrates military kids," 30 Apr. 2018
Jeong says South Korean authorities recently contacted him asking him to stop sending bottled care packages to North Korea.

— ivan watson, jungeun kim, stella ko and jo shelley, CNN, "Messages in bottles sent across the sea to North Korea," 17 May 2018

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