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shared care

noun

C1CEFR level
58/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

An arrangement under which a child divides their time substantially between both parents' homes.

The parents agreed a shared care arrangement of week-on, week-off during term time.

Similar: shared residence

Topic: Family law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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