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Meanings of tending in English

Portuguese
cuidado
Catalan
atenció
Spanish
ayuda

The work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something.

cuidado

(Usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward.

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Examples for "care"
Examples for "care"
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Conclusion: Sociodemographic and clinical factors result in differences in health care use.
Pubmed
2
Background: Nurses are members of the health care team for crisis response.
Pubmed
3
Purpose: Quality assessment and assurance are important issues in modern health care.
Pubmed
4
IMS Health does market research in the pharmaceutical and health care industries.
Reuters
5
That's key for a health care system where costs continue to rise.
Wired
1
Importance: Positive psychological interventions for improving health have received increasing attention recently.
Pubmed
2
However, media attention is never sustained long enough to ask such questions.
The Irish Times
3
Conclusion: Intraoperative hypothermia is still common and should therefore receive serious attention.
Pubmed
4
It's an international problem which is attracting attention of public health officials.
The Guardian
5
Few American or South African 'people' pay much attention to the words.
The South African
1
However, foreign aid is an extremely important debate that needs wider discussion.
The Guardian
2
Far more than humanitarian aid, however, it is military protection they need.
The Irish Times
3
One question is whether it would comply with EU state aid rules.
The Irish Times
4
Madam, - Your paper has recently carried several articles on overseas aid.
The Irish Times
5
She said Apple's sweetheart tax deal with Ireland constituted illegal state aid.
The Guardian
Usage of tending in English
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Mrs Hodge said: Local authorities are tending to cope with funding reductions.
BBC
2
Logan was working day and night then, building houses and tending bar.
The forever war
3
Perhaps my true worth may be measured in the tending of you.
The Kagonesti (A Story of the Wild Elves)
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A few others were inside the room, feeding and tending the children.
Earth Afire
5
There is here in the subject no antecedent feeling tending to morality.
The Critique of Practical Reason
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But nothing had been found tending to implicate him in the crime.
Phineas Redux
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He was certainly tending towards the more Christian elements in his surroundings.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Don't forget to say hi to Kevin Fitzgerald, if he's tending bar.
Anthropology of an american girl: a novel
9
We broke up the door and took turns again tending the fire.
A Busy Year at the Old Squire's
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The sacristan stood beside him, tending to the incense and holy water.
The last four days of Paddy Buckley
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The footsteps of the murderer were visible, out-doors, tending toward the window.
The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster / With an Essa...
12
Need of raw material was the motive tending towards agreement with Russia.
Russia in 1919
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She had thrown herself with devotion into the tending of the poor.
The Argosy, Vol. 51, No. 6, June, 1891
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I spent a morning tending severe sun-burns with liberal applications of liniment.
Anno Dracula
15
I may have other personal reasons also, tending to the same conclusion.
The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance
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There was a flurry of activity among the priests tending the instruments.
Gather, Darkness!
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Tending through the time
Tending across language varieties
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