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baby farm
noun
, Informal.
- a place that houses and takes care of babies for a fee.
- a residence for unwed pregnant girls or women that also arranges adoptions.
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Other Words From
- baby farmer noun
- baby farming noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of baby farm1
First recorded in 1865–70
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Example Sentences
"It was like they were making a baby farm or something," Naomi Sisk told the Raleigh News and Observer.
From The Daily Beast
She was not a baby-farm after all, and the audition of these squalling nurslings vexed her.
From Project Gutenberg
I remember an old colored woman, she must be dead by this time, who kept a baby farm.
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She placed the child with a certain woman who kept a kind of baby-farm in the midlands.
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