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Take care   /teɪk kɛr/   Listen
Take care

verb
1.
Be careful, prudent, or watchful.
2.
Be in charge of or deal with.  Synonym: mind.
3.
Take charge of or deal with.  Synonyms: attend, look, see.  "I must attend to this matter" , "She took care of this business"





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"Take care" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the practical operations of the Sandwich Islands Mission. Those who from pure religious motives contribute to the support of this enterprise should take care to ascertain that their donations, flowing through many devious channels, at last effect their legitimate object, the conversion of the Hawaiians. I urge this not because I doubt the moral probity of those who disburse the funds, but because I know that they are not rightly applied. ...
— Typee - A Romance of the South Sea • Herman Melville
... brought it to you early you scolded me after you had taken it, and said if ever I let myself be persuaded again, you'd dismiss me on the spot. And you warned me that you'd be artful and get it out of me somehow if I didn't take care." ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... from baby's face. Allowing a person with a cough or a cold to hold the baby. Violent rocking, bouncing, and rollicking play at any time. Dirty playthings, dirty nipples, dirty bottles, dirty floors. Allowing any person with tuberculosis to take care of the baby. Testing the temperature of the baby's milk by taking the nipple ...
— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler
... Court declared: "Whereas it is the duty of the Christian magistrate to take care the people be fed with wholesome & sound doctrine, & in this houre of temptation, ... it is therefore ordered, that henceforth no person shall ... preach to any company of people, whither in church society or not, or be ordeyned to the office of a teaching elder, where any ...
— The Emancipation of Massachusetts • Brooks Adams
... you to know that I am willing to take care of you, and pay your expenses, however extravagant they may be, as long ...
— Breaking Away - or The Fortunes of a Student • Oliver Optic


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