take care of

idiomatic phrase

1

: to attend to or provide for the needs, operation, or treatment of (someone or something)

He is home taking care of a sick child.

Each operator can take care of three machines.

The schoolteacher began to feel like a fifth wheel. Her home was taken care of, and her children were taking care of themselves.

—Dorothy West

2

: to deal with or do (something that requires effort or attention)

My assistant takes care of all our travel arrangements.

He offered to take care of [=pay] the bill.

Examples of take care of in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

So Urbani’s job was to procure those from a hatchery or catch them and then take care of them so they could be released. —Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 8 June 2023

Once that’s done, KFON’s business support centre will contact and take care of the next course of action. —Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 6 June 2023

One of the sections will be about how to take care of Social Security matters. —Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 4 June 2023

As a result, Michaela finds a way to get out of the detention facility to take care of her father, with the help of Jared (J.R. Ramirez). —Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 2 June 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1582, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for take care of

• above
• foxglove
• hereof
• thereof
• whereof
• dove
• glove
• love
• shove
• hereinabove