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nursemaid

noun

ˈnərs-ˌmād

Definition of nursemaid

as in nurse

a person employed to care for a young child or children sent the children to their nursemaid

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Recent Examples of nursemaid Opposite Assante and Scacchi, who plays Odysseus’ wife, Penelope, Hollywood royalty Isabella Rossellini and Geraldine Chaplin deliver scene-stealing performances as Athena and the nursemaid Eurycleia. — Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 24 July 2026 Taking with her only Fanny and a nursemaid, Wollstonecraft travelled to Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and during her travels, wrote dozens of letters to Imlay in which the infant Fanny might occasionally be glimpsed. — Literary Hub, 5 June 2026 Anna has come East to meet her estranged father, the Swedish bargeman Chris (Brian d’Arcy James), who believes Anna’s been earning money as a nursemaid. — Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2025 Providing relief and contrast are the sisters, daughters, mothers, wives, mistresses, and nursemaids, all of whom also have views on ideal social order. — Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025 Second of all, these people here, everybody is like a nursemaid so to speak. — Sean Neumann, People.com, 16 Jan. 2025

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Staff and faculty question whether expansion serves low-income communities, while nurses describe severe emergency-room crowding.

— Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
That led to Jackson Healthcare, a behemoth company that provides contract nurses and other workers to hospitals and health systems, including public entities that have helped fuel Jackson’s fortunes with taxpayer money.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026

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