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.

—David Dayen

Examples of childcare in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Anyone with additional information about the incident or who may have information about Buhler providing childcare services is asked to contact the Lincoln Police Department's Investigations Division at 916-645-4047. —Tim Fang, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2026

Some could no longer afford childcare. —Eve Chen, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026

The last such strike lasted for six days in January 2019, when schools remained open, providing meals and childcare but virtually no instruction. —Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026

Bennett also ordered that the comptroller’s office must allow Muslim schools to apply for the program alongside hundreds of other private schools and childcare providers across the state that have applied. —Silas Allen, Dallas Morning News, 19 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1896, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for childcare

• abwehr
• affair
• affaire
• airfare
• altair
• armchair
• aware
• beware
• bugbear
• carfare
• compare
• cookware