Why do caregiver and caretaker mean the same thing?

Why does caregiver and caretaker mean the same thing?

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    'Take' has many definitions, not all of them mean 'to obtain' or 'to gain into one's possession'. One definition is to make, or perform, basically, to 'do' something. "Take care" is a phrase that means to be careful, for example, not to obtain/steal 'care' from something. Therefore caregiver and caretaker can mean the same thing; despite 'giver' and 'taker' being opposites in one sense, in this sense we have a 'giver of care' and 'someone who takes care of someone'.

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