Definition

1. Verb:

   • To provide for, to support (financially/materially): The primary meaning of "cấp dưỡng" is to supply the necessities of life, such as food and money, to someone who is dependent, often due to age, disability, or legal obligation.
   • To provide relief for: This usage specifically refers to providing aid or support to the elderly, weak, or disabled.

2. Noun:

   • Cook, kitchen staff: "Cấp dưỡng" refers to a person whose job is to prepare food in a collective setting such as an office canteen, school, military unit, or other institution.

Usage Examples

• Verb:

  • Con cái có nghĩa vụ cấp dưỡng cho cha mẹ già. (Children have the duty to provide for their elderly parents.)
  • Nhà nước có chính sách cấp dưỡng những người tàn tật. (The state has a policy to provide relief for people with disabilities.)

• Noun:

  • Anh ấy làm cấp dưỡng cho một đơn vị quân đội. (He works as a cook for a military unit.)
  • Công việc cấp dưỡng ở trường học rất vất vả. (The job of a kitchen staff member at a school is very hard work.)

Advanced Usage

• "Nghĩa vụ cấp dưỡng": Alimony; child support; maintenance obligation. This is a legal term for the financial support one person is legally required to provide to another (e.g., after a divorce, for a child, or for a parent).
  • Tòa án đã ra phán quyết về nghĩa vụ cấp dưỡng sau ly hôn. (The court issued a ruling on alimony after the divorce.)
• "Tiền cấp dưỡng": Alimony; child support; maintenance payment. This refers to the actual monetary payment made.
  • Người cha phải trả tiền cấp dưỡng cho con mỗi tháng. (The father has to pay child support every month.)

Variants and Related Words

• Cấp dưỡng viên (n): A more formal or specific term for an institutional cook or kitchen staff member.
  • Các cấp dưỡng viên đang chuẩn bị bữa trưa cho học sinh. (The cooks are preparing lunch for the students.)
• Chu cấp (v): To provide for, to subsidize. A close synonym, often used in similar financial/ support contexts.
• Nuôi dưỡng (v): To nurture, to raise (often with a focus on care and upbringing, not just financial support).

Synonyms

• Verb: (to provide for), (to raise, to provide for), (to subsidize, to grant aid).
• Noun: (chef, cook - more general), (cook).

Related Phrases / Collocations

• Cấp dưỡng cho gia đình: To provide for one's family.
• Bộ phận cấp dưỡng: The kitchen/catering department (in an institution).
• Làm công tác cấp dưỡng: To work in the kitchen / to do kitchen duty.

verb

1. To provide relief for (old or disabled person)
   • cấp dưỡng những người già yếu, tàn tật
     to provide relief for the old, debilitated and disabled

noun

1. Cook (in offices, army units..)
   • làm cấp dưỡng
     to be a cook in an office (army unit..)
   • công tác cấp dưỡng
     kitchen duty