care package
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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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.
The CMO as therapist: Marketing chiefs take on more intimate workplace role in pandemic | Jessica Davies | December 15, 2020 | DigidayMoving 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 | DigidayWe’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 PostBrooks 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 | ProPublicaThese are care packages sent weekly from the Wisconsin headquarters to operations across the company, Joslyn explained.
How Trek Bicycles has kept a great culture rolling in a fast-moving 2020 | lbelanger225 | November 23, 2020 | Fortune
The group Operation Gratitude, for example, says it costs $15 to assemble and ship a care package.
Exclusive: ‘Pro-Troop’ Charity Pays Off Tea Party Cronies Instead | Kim Barker | August 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAccording to gigaom.com, care package sales have already generated $50,000.
Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing as a human care package.
Or you could ship a care package through Any Soldier or Treats For Troops.
It said she had forgotten to pick up the cigarettes, and that they would be in the next care package.
For Soldiers Like Me, Cigarettes and War Are Inseparable | Colby Buzzell | February 3, 2009 | THE DAILY BEAST
Other Idioms and Phrases with 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.
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