care package

Origin

care package

noun
1.
Also, CARE package. a package containing food, clothing, or other items sent as necessities to the needy.
2.
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.

Origin:
from the aid packages distributed by CARE
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Care package is always a great word to know.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History

care package
late 1940s, originally CARE package, supplies sent out by Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere, a post-World War II organization.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Idioms & Phrases

care package

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.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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