daycare centre

British  

noun

1. Also called (esp in Britain): day nursery.  an establishment offering daycare to preschool children, enabling their parents to work full time or have extended relief if child care is a problem

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Example Sentences

Instead volunteers and church staff, such as Ann Hotz, who works at the church's daycare centre, handed out coffee, snacks and hand warmers to those who stopped by.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026

Israeli doctors declared a second baby dead after medics evacuated 55 children from a daycare centre in Jerusalem on Monday, as local media reported the incident may have been linked to the facility's heating system.

From Barron's • Jan. 19, 2026

On Saturday, people left toy flowers and toy trucks outside the Uthai Sawan daycare centre, in an offering to the spirits of those killed.

From Reuters • Oct. 8, 2022

Distraught relatives had also waited outside the daycare centre well into the night.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2022

The toys get shunted off to a daycare centre but find themselves bullied by a creepy old toy called Lotso-Huggin’ Bear, who is that rare thing in the Pixar world: a genuinely sinister villain.

From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2018