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as in custodian
a person who takes care of a property sometimes for an absent owner hired a caretaker for the mansion during the winter months

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as in caregiver
a person who has responsibility for the care of another most primary caretakers of elderly parents are women

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Recent Examples of caretaker Meet Our 2025 Best for Baby Award Winners The Parents 2025 Best for Baby Awards features over 105 products designed to help caretakers on their parenting journey. Laura Lu, Parents, 22 May 2025 Other characters include outcasts, visionaries and eccentrics — all of whom live on the margins as unseen — a former priest, a girl trapped in working her family’s candy stand, a woman who learned preaching from her brother and is a caretaker for her dying housemate. Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 18 May 2025 On July 1, 2025, the state of Connecticut’s Department of Administrative Services will become the owners and caretakers of this land and the $63 million in reserves. Sarah McCoy, Hartford Courant, 18 May 2025 Her interactions with his caretaker, Ada, evolve into a tense psychological cat-and-mouse game with potentially fatal consequences. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for caretaker
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Noun
  • Work history, balances and identity stay with you, not employers or third-party custodians.
    Miguel Kudry, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • Don and his mother were fixtures in the Post’s headquarters on Fifteenth Street; Don seemed to know everyone’s name—reporters, receptionists, custodians.
    Clare Malone, New Yorker, 12 May 2025
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  • Since that diagnosis, Emma has become an advocate for caregivers, a role she was thrust into without warning.
    Mark Gray, People.com, 27 May 2025
  • Buoyed by their son's progress, the Smiths began sharing their journey on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook to connect with other people who are caregivers to children or adults with similar conditions.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • Wyatt Kaiser is 22 and looks like a keeper.
    Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
  • Callender was back in his usual role as Inter Miami’s starting keeper on Sunday night against Toronto FC at Chase Stadium.
    Andre Fernandez, Miami Herald, 7 Apr. 2025
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  • Most rides have a family waiting area for parents or guardians to switch off with kids who either can’t or don’t want to ride.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 23 May 2025
  • Then some of the bombs that Mayday placed go off right as the guardians’ cars drive by.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 20 May 2025
Noun
  • Prosecutors said during the trial that Pankey had been excommunicated after the incident, which also cost him his job there as a janitor.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 24 May 2025
  • Agudelo was biking home from her job as a janitor at an East Harlem museum, taking her usual shortcut through Randall’s Island to get to her Astoria apartment, when Jiraud jumped her about 11:30 p.m. last Friday, police said.
    Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • An associate warden at the prison said he was not authorized to speak to the media.
    Ames Alexander, Charlotte Observer, 30 May 2025
  • Purdy, known to her family as Bez Purdy, was loved by the Broomfield community and had been a church warden for 20 years before her untimely death, per the statement.
    Lesley Cosme Torres, People.com, 27 May 2025

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“Caretaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caretaker. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.

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