care package

noun

|Updated on: 6 Jun 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

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
Hart said people have been full of love, offering food, rides, care packages, miles for flights, funny and warming thoughts on a private Facebook page and an occasional cleaning lady.

— christina hall, Detroit Free Press, "Farmington Hills mom ill with cancer: 'No one here is wallowing'," 13 May 2018
Courtney, an oncology specialist nurse at MD Anderson Medical Center in Houston, belongs to a group of women called Benefit Betties that collects donations to put together care packages for deployed military troops.

— guillermo contreras, San Antonio Express-News, "Ex-leader of Bandidos rests his case," 7 May 2018
At a care package station, volunteers prepared boxes of personal products and treats for servicewomen on deployment.

— deborah sullivan brennan, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Veterans Museum festival celebrates military kids," 30 Apr. 2018
De La Cruz, who worked as a domestic helper in Hong Kong, scrimped and saved to put dresses, chocolates and toys in her children’s care packages.

— frank shyong, latimes.com, "These boxes are a billion-dollar industry of homesickness for Filipinos overseas," 28 Apr. 2018
The community responded with an outpouring of generosity, filling multiple rooms with enough donations for each family to receive care packages to set them on the path toward rebuilding their lives.

— leila atassi, cleveland.com, "Families sleeping on the floor weeks after devastating Garden Valley fire, need your help: A Greater Cleveland," 13 Apr. 2018

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