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care package
noun
- Also CARE package. a package containing food, clothing, or other items sent as necessities to people in need of them.
- a gift of treats to relatives or friends, especially of items not readily available to them:
She sends monthly care packages of homemade cookies to her son at college.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of care package1
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Idioms and Phrases
A gift package of food or other items not readily available to the recipient, as in While I was in college, Mom sent me a care package of homemade cookies just about every month . This term originated after World War II with CARE, an organization founded to send needed food, clothing, and other items to war-torn nations. By the 1960s the term had been transferred to sending packages of treats to children at camp, students away at school, and the like.Discover More
Example Sentences
The group Operation Gratitude, for example, says it costs $15 to assemble and ship a care package.
According to gigaom.com, care package sales have already generated $50,000.
Anyhow, Obama is too chilly by nature ever to be convincing as a human care package.
Or you could ship a care package through Any Soldier or Treats For Troops.
It said she had forgotten to pick up the cigarettes, and that they would be in the next care package.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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