caring

car‧ing /ˈkeərɪŋ $ ˈker-/ BrE AmE adjective
[Word Family: noun: ↑care, ↑carer; adjective: ↑careful ≠ ↑careless, ↑caring ≠ UNCARING; verb: ↑care; adverb: ↑carefully ≠ ↑carelessly]
1. thinking about what other people need or want and trying to help them ⇨ care:
a warm and caring man
a caring attitude
The school aims to provide a caring environment.
2. [only before noun] involving the job of looking after other people:
Many of the caring professions are badly paid.
More men are taking on a caring role.

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

caring

car·ing [caring] [ˈkeərɪŋ] [ˈkerɪŋ] adjective usually before noun
kind, helpful and showing that you care about other people
• He's a very caring person.
• caring parents
• Children need a caring environment.
• (BrE) a caring profession (= a job that involves looking after or helping other people)
Example Bank:
• He was described as ‘a good man, a caring father and a considerate neighbour’.

• She's a very caring person.

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition

caring / ˈkeə.rɪŋ / / ˈker.ɪŋ / adjective

B2 describes someone who is kind and gives emotional support to others:

I've always thought of Jo as a very caring person.

Collins Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

caring

[ke͟ərɪŋ]
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1) ADJ-GRADED If someone is caring, they are affectionate, helpful, and sympathetic.
  He is a lovely boy, very gentle and caring.
  ...a loving, caring husband.
  Syn:
  loving
2) ADJ: ADJ n The caring professions are those such as nursing and social work that are involved with looking after people who are ill or who need help in coping with their lives. [BRIT]
  The course is also suitable for those in the caring professions.
  ...the caring services.

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

caring

caring adj
1 [more ~; most ~] : feeling or showing concern for other people
• a caring parent/child/teacher
• a caring gesture
2 always used before a noun Brit : of or relating to work that involves helping people
• the caring professions