Definition of "day care" []

• Childcare during the day while parents work (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "In the afternoons Denise left the twins at day care and drove to the gray rectangular slab of Jefferson High."
• "Enteroviruses, those ordinary viral infections that keep young children home from day care or school with cold and flulike symptoms and sometimes fever and muscle aches, cause an estimated 10 to 15 million infections a year in the United States."
• "“My day care was at Commodore Stockton”—the main Chinatown elementary school, now named Gordon J."