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Carer vs Carr - What's the difference?

carer | carr |

As a noun carer

is someone who looks after another, either as a job or often through family responsibilities.

As a proper noun carr is

a botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist cedric errol carr (1892-1936).

carer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • someone who looks after another, either as a job or often through family responsibilities.
    • Have you thought of a job as a carer for disabled people?
    He retired early to be a full-time carer for his wife / husband.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011
    • , date=December 14 , author=Steven Morris , title=Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave , work=Guardian citation , page= , passage=He said Robins had not been in trouble with the law before and had no previous convictions. Jail would have an adverse effect on her and her three children as she was the main carer .}}

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    carr

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bog or marsh; marshy ground, swampland.
  • * 2007 , Kevin Leahy, The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Lindsey , Tempus 2008, p. 16:
    • The marsh lands or ‘carrs ’ that covered the low-lying floor of the vale could not be cultivated and the poorly drained flanks of the vale would be best used as pasture.
  • A marsh or fen on which low trees or bushes grow; a marshy woodland.
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