"customer care"

[W Brewer]

CD:  <<<"customer service" > "customer care"?>>>
WB:  babysitting > child care; rest home > senior care; patient care; pet
care
<Customer care> seems to fit in a class of compounds where the fore-member
is dependent, helpless, at times clueless. One of the few contexts in which
a high-school drop-out has me over a barrel.

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