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occupational Adjective

— About or by your job Their income is: state pension £83.25 occupational pension £45.20 Total £128.45. The specialised language of certain occupational groups (for example, builders, doctors, lawyers, mechanics and scientists) is often unknown to other people. This industry has some of the highest standards of occupational health and safety.

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health Noun

— If you talk about the health of a person or animal, you are talking about whether they are sick or not. The doctors believe that the disease will not be a serious danger to public health. Before you start exercising, you should be in good health. — If you have health you are not sick (do not have disease) and are not hurt.

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care Noun

— Care is the act of helping someone, especially sick people, the very young or the very old. He decided not to seek health care from a hospitals. We take the kids to child care during the week. — If you take care of someone, you watch them so that there is no trouble. You're going to need someone to take care of you when you get older. We'll be taking real good care of you. I promise. — If you take care of a problem, you fix it or arrange it. Don's worry. Pearl and Edward will take care of things. We go in, do our job, and take care of what we need to take care of. — You say "Take care!" when you are leaving somebody. That's it. All right. Jim, good to see you. Take care. — You say "Take care!" when you want somebody to do something safely. Go slowly and take care not to touch anything. Care should be taken when holding eggs. — Care is the act of keeping something in a good condition. I'm caring for the house while they're away. — A Care is a worry, concern, or something that you think about often. I don't have a care in the world.

care Verb

— If you don't care about something, you don't think about it often or have a concern for it; it doesn't matter. I don't care what happens to my car. — If you care about something, you think it is important. He only cares about his car. — If you care for somebody, look after Young children can learn to care for a pet.

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