child care

1. 1.

   a service involving care for other people's children

   Synonymschildcare

   Broaderservice

   Narrowerdaycare

Questions about child care

What does child care mean?

child care means "a service involving care for other people's children".

What is another word for child care?

Close synonyms include childcare. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is child care a common word?

child care is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.