nursing

Definitions

1. 1

   In the state of suckling young, lactating.

   • The nursing bear wouldn't move far until her cubs were older.
2. 2

   Referring to nurses.

   • The nursing staff worked overtime at the hospital.
3. 3

   Suckling, such as breastfeeding.

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   1. 4

      The process or profession of caring for patients as a nurse.

      • She went into nursing as a career.
      • Nursing is an art; and, if it is to be made an art, requires as exclusive a devotion, as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; […]
   2. 5

      present participle and gerund of nurse

      • The mother sat there nursing her baby.

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