nursingadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˈnɜː.sɪŋ/us/ˈnɝː.sɪŋ/A nursing mother is a woman who is feeding her baby with her own breast milk:
Nursing mothers are advised to eat plenty of leafy green vegetables.
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Parents & children
- babyhood
- bastard
- child abuse
- child-friendly
- conjoined twins
- identical twin
- illegitimate
- latchkey kid
- love child
- motherhood
- motherless
- parenthood
- patter
- quad
- quadruplet
- quintuplet
- sextuplet
- tug of love
- twin
- without issue idiom
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nursingnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈnɜː.sɪŋ/us/ˈnɝː.sɪŋ/nursing noun [ U ] (JOB)
the job of being a nurse:
She studied nursing at Garfield Hospital.
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Medical treatment: doctors & health workers generally
- anaesthetist
- auxiliary nurse
- charge nurse
- clinician
- consultant
- dental practitioner/surgeon
- doctor's orders
- ENT
- GP
- houseman
- LPN
- medical examiner
- mo
- nurse
- occupational therapy
- odontologist
- radiographer
- resident
- senior nursing officer
- specialist
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nursing noun [ U ] (FEEDING)
the act of a woman feeding a baby with milk from her breasts:
Nursing is preferable to bottle-feeding in most cases.
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Parents & children
- babyhood
- bastard
- child abuse
- child-friendly
- conjoined twins
- identical twin
- illegitimate
- latchkey kid
- love child
- motherhood
- motherless
- parenthood
- patter
- quad
- quadruplet
- quintuplet
- sextuplet
- tug of love
- twin
- without issue idiom
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