baby farm
noun
a place that houses and takes care of babies for a fee.
baby farming
-
a word derived from
baby farm.
Example Sentences
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She recalls that in the years long ago she practised baby farming, and to her care were committed two infants, "one of low condition, the other a patrician."
From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Henry A. Lytton
In South Australia baby farming has been extinguished, and in the other States legislation on similar lines has been won, and they are in process of gradually weeding out bad and doubtful foster mothers.
From An Autobiography by Catherine Helen Spence
There is a suggestion that some baby farming is done, so many are about.
From New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
