Talk:care

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Tho not for long, the following DictDef is at WP's article:

In common use, care refers to a mental or emotional state of predisposition in which one has an interest or concern for someone or something. To care for someone, may also refer to a disquieted state of mixed uncertainty, apprehension, and responsibility; or a cause for such anxiety. Caring for an object, such as a house, refers to a state of attendant maintenance; or may also refer to a state of charge or supervision, as in under a doctor’s care.

== See also ==

• Day-care
• Intensive care
• Managed care

--User:Jerzy·t 22:42, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

transitive

Collins: (transitive) to agree or like (to do something): would you care to sit down, please?
Random House: (v.t.) to wish; desire; like: Would you care to dance?
https://www.wordreference.com/definition/care

Yet here it's labeled as intransitive. --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:15, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

Appalachian

Another example/mention of te Appalachian "mind" sense:

• 2013, Amy D. Clark, Nancy M. Hayward, Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community, page 141:

  For example, common expressions in the coalfields include “If you don't care to, get me a pop” or “If the creek don't rise.”

- -sche (discuss) 21:21, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

in care

In a state of being cared for by a government institution. --Backinstadiums (talk) 15:45, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

well-cared-for

Just as we have uncared-for or well-groomed--Backinstadiums (talk) 20:11, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

Negative Polarity Item

To desire; like: [with a negative word or phrase, or in questions] 
[~ + to + verb]  Would you care to dance?  [~ + for + object] Would you care for dessert?  --Backinstadiums (talk) 09:13, 16 August 2021 (UTC)