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noun

Also CARE package. a package containing food, clothing, or other items sent as necessities to people in need of them.

a gift of treats to relatives or friends, especially of items not readily available to them: She sends monthly care packages of homemade cookies to her son at college.

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Origin of care package

First recorded in 1945–50; from the aid packages distributed by CARE

Words nearby care package

careless, carelessness, careline, Carême, Caren, care package, care plan, carer, caress, caressing, caressive

How to use care package in a sentence

For example, this July 4th, his events team sent every employee a care package from the ice cream vendor Van Leeuwen.
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Moving forward, more companies will have to treat those holiday plans, whether they are care packages or extra time off, as investments.
Care packages replace canapés as Coronavirus cancels media holiday party extravagances|Max Willens|November 30, 2020|Digiday
We’d only open the front door for delivered groceries and the many meals and care packages that friends, family and colleagues left for us.
As a food writer with covid, I worried I’d lose my sense of taste. It turned out to be much worse.|Tim Carman|November 29, 2020|Washington Post
Brooks brought the care package inside but was so exhausted that she had to rest on her couch on the way to the kitchen.
Two School Districts Had Different Mask Policies. Only One Had a Teacher on a Ventilator.|by Annie Waldman and Heather Vogell|November 23, 2020|ProPublica

These are care packages sent weekly from the Wisconsin headquarters to operations across the company, Joslyn explained.
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Placed in drinking water, fluoride can serve people who otherwise have poor access to dental care.
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He has wild swings between trying not to care about Lana and the baby, and being completely obsessed by it.
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Who among Scalise's constituents could possibly care if he supported naming a post office for a black judge who died in 1988?
The Price of Steve Scalise’s Silence|Jason Berry|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Haringey Council told The Daily Beast that the children had not been taken permanently into state care.
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In these regions, men are now doing between 30 and 45 percent of the care work.
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I do not care very much how you censor or select the reading and talking and thinking of the schoolboy or schoolgirl.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
And this summer it seemed to her that she never would be able to take proper care of her nestful of children.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole|Arthur Scott Bailey
Polavieja, as everybody knew, was the chosen executive of the friars, whose only care was to secure their own position.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
On this account, great care should be taken to provide well-drained positions.
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You never cared—you were too proud to care; and when I spoke to you about my fault, you did n't even know what I meant.
Confidence|Henry James

Other Idioms and Phrases with care package

care package

A gift package of food or other items not readily available to the recipient, as in While I was in college, Mom sent me a care package of homemade cookies just about every month. This term originated after World War II with CARE, an organization founded to send needed food, clothing, and other items to war-torn nations. By the 1960s the term had been transferred to sending packages of treats to children at camp, students away at school, and the like.