Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary полностью

8 N‑UNCOUNT [oft with N ] If you do something with care , you give careful attention to it because you do not want to make any mistakes or cause any damage. □  Condoms are an effective method of birth control if used with care. □  We'd taken enormous care in choosing the location.

9 N‑COUNT Your cares are your worries, anxieties, or fears. □  Lean back in a hot bath and forget all the cares of the day. □  Johnson seemed without a care in the world.

10 → see also aftercare , caring , day care , intensive care

11 PHRASE You can use for all I care to emphasize that it does not matter at all to you what someone does. [EMPHASIS ] □  You can go right now for all I care.

12 PHRASE If you say that you couldn't care less about someone or something, you are emphasizing that you are not interested in them or worried about them. In American English, you can also say that you could care less , with the same meaning. [EMPHASIS ] □ [+ about ] I couldn't care less about the bloody woman. □  I used to be proud working for them; now I could care less. I'm just out here for the money.

13 PHRASE If someone sends you a letter or parcel care of a particular person or place, they send it to that person or place, and it is then passed on to you. In American English, you can also say in care of . □  Please write to me care of the publishers.

14 PHRASE If you take care of someone or something, you look after them and prevent them from being harmed or damaged. □  There was no one else to take care of their children. □  You have to learn to take care of your possessions.

15 CONVENTION You can say ' Take care ' when saying goodbye to someone. [FORMULAE ]

16 PHRASE If you take care to do something, you make sure that you do it. □  Foley followed Albert through the gate, taking care to close the latch.

17 PHRASE To take care of a problem, task, or situation means to deal with it. □  They leave it to the system to try and take care of the problem. □  'Do you need clean sheets?'—'No. Mrs. May took care of that.'

18 PHRASE You can say ' Who cares? ' to emphasize that something does not matter to you at all. [EMPHASIS ] □ [+ about ] Who cares about some stupid vacation? □  'But we might ruin the stove.'—'Who cares?'

ca|reen /kəriː n/ (careens , careening , careened ) VERB To careen somewhere means to rush forward in an uncontrollable way. [mainly AM ] □ [V prep/adv] He stood to one side as they careened past him.

ca|reer ◆◆◇ /kər I ə ^r / (careers , careering , careered )

1 N‑COUNT A career is the job or profession that someone does for a long period of their life. □ [+ as ] She is now concentrating on a career as a fashion designer. □ [+ in ] …a career in journalism. □  …a political career.

2 N‑COUNT Your career is the part of your life that you spend working. □  During his career, he wrote more than fifty plays. □ [+ as ] She began her career as a teacher.

3 ADJ [ADJ n] Careers advice or guidance in British English, or career advice or guidance in American English, consists of information about different jobs and help with deciding what kind of job you want to do. □  Get hold of the company list from your careers advisory service.

4 VERB [oft cont] If a person or vehicle careers somewhere, they move fast and in an uncontrolled way. □ [V prep/adv] His car careered into a river. □ [V prep/adv] He went careering off down the track. COLLOCATIONS career NOUN 1

noun + career : acting, coaching, modelling

adjective + career : distinguished, glittering, illustrious, successful; academic, managerial, musical, political, professional; international