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babylift

babylift noun: the evacuation of foreign children from abroad into a country for adoption.

Noun

babylift (plural babylifts)

  1. The evacuation of foreign children from abroad into a country for adoption.
    • 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, Elwyn James Anthony, Colette Chiland, Children and their parents in a changing world, page 112
    • 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.1978, Gerald G. Hotchiss, Psychology Today, page 30

Examples of babylift in a sentence

  • 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.1995, Newsweek - Volume 125, page 802:
  • They believe there was collusion between Lockheed and its friends in the Air Force to use the babylift to give the C-5 publicity.2001, Danny Schechter, News Dissector: Passions, Pieces, and Polemics, page 108:
  • 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.2010, Cheri Register, Are Those Kids Yours?: American Families With Children Adopted From Other Countries, →ISBN:

Forms of babylift

pluralbabylifts

Origin of babylift

From the name of Operation Babylift.

Questions about babylift

What does babylift mean?
Babylift means the evacuation of foreign children from abroad into a country for adoption.
How do you use babylift in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is babylift?
Babylift is a noun.
What is the plural of babylift?
The plural of babylift is babylifts.

Words near babylift in the dictionary

  1. babykissers
  2. Babyl Creek
  3. babyleaf
  4. babyless
  5. babylessness
  6. babylift
  7. babylifts
  8. babylike
  9. babylon
  10. Babylon the Great
  11. Babylon willow

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