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CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere), nonprofit, nonsectarian federation of agencies devoted to channeling relief and self-help materials to needy people in foreign countries. Organized in the United States (1945) to help war-ravaged Europe, CARE soon expanded its program to include developing nations in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Famous for its "CARE packages" of food and other necessities, CARE in now also involved in population, health care, land management, and small economic activity. It is now an international organization with 10 member countries and headquarters in Brussels.
care
in (or into) care Social welfare made the legal responsibility of a local authority by order of a court

CARE
agency devoted to channeling relief to needy people abroad. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 456]


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At times, I yearn for a boy to like me; other times, I couldn't care less.
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