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rearing

rearing

17 3.2
Care for children or young animals
  • noun
  • /ˈrɪrɪŋ/
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  • Many parents find the process of rearing children to be both rewarding and challenging.
  • child-rearing
  • rearing practices
  • childbearing and rearing

So it's harder to manage child rearing and career.

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Examples

  • Which brings us to our focus on child-rearing:

  • It's one of the seminal books on child-rearing.

  • So it's harder to manage child rearing and career.

  • The idea of being a parent and, and, and the family idea of child rearing was completely different than we now understand.

  • JUDGE: And your wife has never given you cause for concern with her child rearing?

  • Thinking about the parenting side of this, how much can rearing change a child?

  • So there are all kinds of places where we see the costs of rearing kids rising.

  • I felt it had more to do with child-rearing concerns...

  • Child-rearing around the world boasts a wide variety of customs and mores.

  • Increasingly, books on child-rearing have stressed the need for a permissive, liberal home environment.

    Academic text (1991)

Synonyms

parenting
vsrearing
206 3.0

To raise and care for children

includes young animals as well as children
upbringing
vsrearing
78 3.2

The care, teaching, and values a child gets from parents

focuses on the active process and methods rather than the result
bringing up
vsrearing
18 3.5

Caring for a child and teaching them how to behave

is broader, covering methods and overall care beyond behaviour training
raising
vsrearing
11 2.5

The care and teaching of a child as they grow

covers young animals too, not only human children
nurture
vsrearing
2 3.5

Care and encouragement for a child to help them grow

includes wider practical methods and duties beyond simple encouragement

Antonyms

100 3.5

Not caring for someone or something that needs care

How Involved

parenting
206 3.0
rearing
17 3.2
childcare
28 2.1
babysitting
38 1.0

Surface Forms

rearing singular
rearing plural

Morphology

rearing = rear (transparent) = rear + ing

Standard nominalization from the verb 'rear' indicating the process or activity of raising; learners who know the verb can infer the noun meaning.

Etymology

Rearing comes from the old verb rear, which means 'to raise' and is like the common word raise, so rearing is the act or method of raising and caring for children or young animals.