childcare
noun
child·care
ˈchī(-ə)ld-ˌker 
variants
or child care
: the care of children especially as a service while parents are working
Erratic week-to-week work schedules make it nearly impossible to manage a personal budget or secure childcare.—
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Mamdani's program includes a rent freeze on 1 million city apartments, in addition to free buses and childcare.
—Ben Adler, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025
Those proposals are part of his larger, ambitious platform aimed at cutting prices, ranging from creating city-run grocery stores to making city buses and childcare free.
—Elena Moore, NPR, 2 Nov. 2025
Volunteering opportunities across each of these platforms are as vast and varied as any other form of travel, from hostels seeking receptionists, cleaners and party promoters, to surf schools in need of teachers, to local families looking for childcare workers.
—Georgiana Ralphs, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
Even exclusively among civilian payrolls, more essential workers have continued to work without pay than there are furloughed workers, those who at least have the time to work other temporary gigs or the ability to save on usual necessities such as childcare.
—Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025
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Ben Adler, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025
Those proposals are part of his larger, ambitious platform aimed at cutting prices, ranging from creating city-run grocery stores to making city buses and childcare free.
—Elena Moore, NPR, 2 Nov. 2025
Volunteering opportunities across each of these platforms are as vast and varied as any other form of travel, from hostels seeking receptionists, cleaners and party promoters, to surf schools in need of teachers, to local families looking for childcare workers.
—Georgiana Ralphs, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
Even exclusively among civilian payrolls, more essential workers have continued to work without pay than there are furloughed workers, those who at least have the time to work other temporary gigs or the ability to save on usual necessities such as childcare.
—Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2025
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“Childcare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/childcare. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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