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take care
Be careful, use caution, as in Take care or you will slip on the ice . [Late 1500s]
Good-bye, as in I have to go now; take care . This apparent abbreviation of take care of yourself is used both orally and in writing, where it sometimes replaces the conventional Sincerely or Love in signing off correspondence. [ Colloquial ; 1960s]
Example Sentences
“We know a lot of teams are jumbled up right now. So, we just got to take care of business, a game at a time and try to separate ourselves the best we can.”
Daniel’s 10-year-old daughter was often the one taking care of him on these visits, according to the family.
He also has a constitutional obligation to ‘take care that the laws be faithfully executed,’ and that doesn’t involve rewriting them however he sees fit.”
“Even though Arcadia was widely unaffected in terms of losing homes, we had 66 percent of our department on staff for 36 to 48 hours taking care of the east end,” he said.
“My dad took care of her every day through that 12-year battle,” Scott said.
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