babylift
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the name of Operation Babylift.
Noun
[edit]babylift (plural babylifts)
- The evacuation of foreign children from abroad into a country for adoption.
- 1978, Elwyn James Anthony, Colette Chiland, Children and their parents in a changing world, page 112:
- The second prong of my effort, Plan B, was to try to provide some help for the 2000 babylift children we had already brought to America.
- 1978, Gerald G. Hotchiss, Psychology Today, page 30:
- There are ominous implications for babylift children in the story of Leigh Marsh, an adopted Korean child who lost eight years in the Connecticut public school system.
- 1995, Newsweek - Volume 125, page 802:
- Over the next few weeks, on the Pan Am 747s and on military flights that followed, about 1,400 orphans rode the babylift to America.
- 2001, Danny Schechter, News Dissector: Passions, Pieces, and Polemics, page 108:
- They believe there was collusion between Lockheed and its friends in the Air Force to use the babylift to give the C-5 publicity.
- 2010, Cheri Register, Are Those Kids Yours?: American Families With Children Adopted From Other Countries, →ISBN:
- Holt speeded up its efforts when the end of the war became imminent but kept a distance from the babylift by refusing an offer to use military transport planes.
Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From baby (“baby”) + lift (“lift”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]babylift c (singular definite babyliften, plural indefinite babylifter)
- A lined box or cart with handles on the side that is used to carry babies; carrycot.
- 2014, Per Bloch, Ti, tyve, tredive, C&K Forlag:
- Babyliften er grå og svajer i luften som den sejler ned igennem opgangen.
- The carrycot is grey and sways in the air as it sails down through the stairwell.
Inflection
[edit]Declension of babylift
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | babylift | babyliften | babylifter | babylifterne |
genitive | babylifts | babyliftens | babylifters | babylifternes |
Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]babylift c
- carrycot.
- 2013, Klas Östergen, Gangsters, Albert Bonniers Förlag:
- Han satte sig i bilen igen och stängde dörren försiktigt för att inte väcka barnet som utmattat somnat i en babylift.
- He got in the car again and cautiously shut the door, so to not wake the baby which exhaustedly had fallen asleep in a carrycot.
Declension
[edit]Declension of babylift
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