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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boarding out

It has now become a matter of everyday observation, that where there is ample asylum accommodation the boarding out of the insane is either entirely neglected or avoided, or but languidly attempted....

From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke

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

From Father Payne by Arthur Christopher Benson

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

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

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

From An Old Man's Love by Anthony Trollope

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