day care

1. 1.

   childcare during the day while parents work

   Synonymsdaycare

   Broaderchildcare

Questions about day care

What does day care mean?

day care means "childcare during the day while parents work".

What is another word for day care?

Close synonyms include daycare. 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 day care a common word?

day care is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.