baby farm
Americannoun
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a place that houses and takes care of babies for a fee.
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a residence for unwed pregnant girls or women that also arranges adoptions.
Other Word Forms
- baby farmer noun
- baby farming noun
Etymology
Origin of baby farm
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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Somewhere on a baby farm in the San Francisco area is the 1-year-old son she bore Arthur and immediately gave away.
From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2014
The hotel was a "baby farm," where foreigners looking for children to adopt could come to browse, and for a fee $ of $1,000 to $5,000, have their pick of the babies.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Wadduwa baby farm was shut down, but the international traffic in children for adoption remains a big business.
From Time Magazine Archive
These nurse children must have been sent from workhouses round Willesdon ... the parish must have become a baby farm....
From A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727) by Macey, Samuel L.
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