boarding out

British  

noun

1. social welfare

   1. the local-authority practice of placing a client in a foster family or voluntary establishment and paying for it

   2. ( as modifier )

      boarding-out allowances

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Example Sentences

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boarding out

It was the fact that Mr Tookey had three little children boarding out in Kimberley.

From An Old Man's Love by Anthony Trollope

We want more boarding out, but that's expensive.

From Father Payne by Arthur Christopher Benson

The old Squire was thoughtful enough to remember that Ralph would not find it very pleasant "boarding out" all the time he was entitled to spend at Pete Jones's.

From The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana by Edward Eggleston

"I thought I would sell it, as you were boarding out."

From Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland by Abigail Stanley Hanna

I have been working a little, and boarding out, and the boy is going to school.

From The Cow Puncher by Robert J. C. Stead