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GREAT CARE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
More attention and consideration than is normally bestowed by prudent persons
Example:
the pilot exercised great care in landing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("great care" is a kind of...):
care; charge; guardianship; tutelage (attention and management implying responsibility for safety)
Context examples:
She had just copied them with great care, and had destroyed the old manuscript, so that Amy's bonfire had consumed the loving work of several years.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
She is an edge-tool, and requires great care in dealing with.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In a word, although we took great care that he should have no more to do than was good for him, and although he did not begin with the beginning of a week, he earned by the following Saturday night ten shillings and nine-pence; and never, while I live, shall I forget his going about to all the shops in the neighbourhood to change this treasure into sixpences, or his bringing them to my aunt arranged in the form of a heart upon a waiter, with tears of joy and pride in his eyes.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She appeared to me to take great care of the Doctor, and to like him very much, though I never thought her vitally interested in the Dictionary: some cumbrous fragments of which work the Doctor always carried in his pockets, and in the lining of his hat, and generally seemed to be expounding to her as they walked about.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
