childcare

noun

child·​care ˈchī(-ə)ld-ˌker 

variants or child care

: the care of children especially as a service while parents are working

Erratic week-to-week work schedules make it nearly impossible to manage a personal budget or secure childcare.

—David Dayen

Examples of childcare in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Women not only provide the majority of childcare, but also take on far more eldercare than men. —Michelle Travis, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025

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To comfortably slide into ski mom life; pre-schooler in ski school, infant baby in slopeside childcare and my husband and me ripping up big time runs, not a […] Subscribe to continue reading this article. —Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 19 Feb. 2025

With her husband on active duty and four children to care for, Mandy struggled to find reliable childcare. —Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1896, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for childcare

• abwehr
• affair
• affaire
• airfare
• altair
• armchair
• aware
• beware
• bugbear
• carfare
• compare
• cookware