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

Spunkie has been boarding out all August at a cat home, but he seems glad to get back to us.

From Miss Billy by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)

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 Eggleston, Edward

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

From An Old Man's Love by Trollope, Anthony

For some days he meditated upon the possibility of boarding out his tadpoles with some trustworthy person, and then the chance sight of the phrase in a newspaper turned his thoughts to an Experimental Farm.

From The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

I suppose they would not choose to be at the expense of boarding out.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail