as in nurse
a girl or woman employed to care for a young child or children
after years of being a dry nurse to other women's children, she longed to have a child of her own
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Noun
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Her mother, Caitlin MacLaren, is a nurse and South Miami resident.—
Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
18 Oct. 2025 -
Helping patients means helping nurses After getting her undergraduate degree in nursing from the University of Cincinnati, Holt began working as a clinical nurse in the neuroscience unit at UC Health, then called University of Cincinnati Hospital.—
Elizabeth B. Kim,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
18 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Your next movie night will be complete with this ’90s psychological thriller starring a vengeful nanny attempting to destroy a former boss’s life.—
Emma Specter,
Vogue,
19 Oct. 2025
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Only Abi, the young nanny, can make the sickly girl smile.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Dry nurse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dry%20nurse. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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