Caretaker

Quick meaning: Caretaker is a noun meaning Someone who takes care of a place or thing; someone looking after a place, or responsible for keeping it in good repair.

Meaning

Someone who takes care of a place or thing; someone looking after a place, or responsible for keeping it in good repair.

More Meanings

1. (uncommon) Synonym of caregiver (“a person who provides care to another”).
2. (chiefly UK) Temporary, on a short term basis.

Example Sentences

Johnson had to be drafted in as the caretaker manager after Hewlett resigned without warning the day before the final.

Her dad was a cemetery caretaker for many years. There was a lot of landscaping work. The gravedigging itself was done with backhoes.

‘Miss Brindle must be very rich to live in such a big house,’ went on Jessamy. ‘Miss Brindle rich?’ said Aunt Maggie. ‘Bless you, she hasn’t tuppence to rub together. She’s only the caretaker.’

Sources within Sánchez’s caretaker administration claim the amnesty law is perfectly in keeping with the Socialist-led government’s efforts to calm tensions and find a political solution to the so-called Catalan question.

Word Forms

• caretakers

Synonyms for caretaker

Depending on context, synonyms include caregiver, interim.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include custodian, custodial, attendant, carer, assistant, steward.

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