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baby farm

noun Informal.
  1. a place that houses and takes care of babies for a fee.
  2. a residence for unwed pregnant girls or women that also arranges adoptions.

Origin of baby farm

First recorded in 1865–70
Related formsbaby farmer, nounbaby farming, noun
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Historical Examples of baby farm

  • She was not a baby-farm after all, and the audition of these squalling nurslings vexed her.

  • She placed the child with a certain woman who kept a kind of baby-farm in the midlands.

    A Gallant Grenadier

    F.S. Brereton