nurse
♦ nurse /n'ɜːrs/ (nurses nursing nursed)
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A nurse is a person whose job is to care for people who are ill.
She had spent 29 years as a nurse...
Patients were dying because of an acute shortage of nurses.
2 [VERB] V n, V n back to n
If you nurse someone, you care for them when they are ill.
All the years he was sick my mother had nursed him...
She rushed home to nurse her daughter back to health.
3 [VERB] V n
If you nurse an illness or injury, you allow it to get better by resting as much as possible.
We're going to go home and nurse our colds.
4 [VERB] V n, V n
If you nurse an emotion or desire, you feel it strongly for a long time.
Jane still nurses the pain of rejection...
He had nursed an ambition to lead his own big orchestra.
= harbour
5 [VERB] V, V n, V-ing
When a baby nurses or when its mother nurses it, it feeds by sucking milk from its mother's breast. (OLD-FASHIONED)
Most authorities recommend letting the baby nurse whenever it wants.
...young women nursing babies...
Young people and nursing mothers are exempted from charges.
= suckle
6
see also nursery nurse, nursing, charge nurse (charge nurses)
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A charge nurse is a nurse who is in charge of a hospital ward. (BRIT)dis|trict nurse (district nurses)
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In Britain, a district nurse is a nurse who goes to people's houses to give them medical treatment and advice.nurse|ry nurse (nursery nurses)
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A nursery nurse is a person who has been trained to look after very young children. (BRIT)reg|is|tered nurse (registered nurses)
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A registered nurse is someone who is qualified to work as a nurse. (AM, AUSTRALIAN)staff nurse (staff nurses)
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A staff nurse is a hospital nurse whose rank is just below that of a sister or charge nurse. (BRIT)wet nurse (wet nurses)
also wet-nurse
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In former times, a wet nurse was a woman who was paid to breast-feed another woman's baby.
1 [N-COUNT; N-TITLE; N-VOC]
A nurse is a person whose job is to care for people who are ill.
She had spent 29 years as a nurse...
Patients were dying because of an acute shortage of nurses.
2 [VERB] V n, V n back to n
If you nurse someone, you care for them when they are ill.
All the years he was sick my mother had nursed him...
She rushed home to nurse her daughter back to health.
3 [VERB] V n
If you nurse an illness or injury, you allow it to get better by resting as much as possible.
We're going to go home and nurse our colds.
4 [VERB] V n, V n
If you nurse an emotion or desire, you feel it strongly for a long time.
Jane still nurses the pain of rejection...
He had nursed an ambition to lead his own big orchestra.
= harbour
5 [VERB] V, V n, V-ing
When a baby nurses or when its mother nurses it, it feeds by sucking milk from its mother's breast. (OLD-FASHIONED)
Most authorities recommend letting the baby nurse whenever it wants.
...young women nursing babies...
Young people and nursing mothers are exempted from charges.
= suckle
6
see also nursery nurse, nursing, charge nurse (charge nurses)
[N-COUNT]
A charge nurse is a nurse who is in charge of a hospital ward. (BRIT)dis|trict nurse (district nurses)
[N-COUNT]
In Britain, a district nurse is a nurse who goes to people's houses to give them medical treatment and advice.nurse|ry nurse (nursery nurses)
[N-COUNT]
A nursery nurse is a person who has been trained to look after very young children. (BRIT)reg|is|tered nurse (registered nurses)
[N-COUNT]
A registered nurse is someone who is qualified to work as a nurse. (AM, AUSTRALIAN)staff nurse (staff nurses)
[N-COUNT]
A staff nurse is a hospital nurse whose rank is just below that of a sister or charge nurse. (BRIT)wet nurse (wet nurses)
also wet-nurse
[N-COUNT]
In former times, a wet nurse was a woman who was paid to breast-feed another woman's baby.