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breeding-ground

breeding-ground noun: a place or region where animals go to breed.

Noun

breeding-ground (plural breeding-grounds)

  1. A place or region where animals go to breed.
  2. (figuratively) A place or institution seen as creating large numbers of a stated thing, type of person, etc.
    • Harris criticized the report's emphasis on enforcement, noting that, "Putting people in jail won't stop the virus from spreading." In fact, prisons are virtual breeding grounds for AIDS, due to lack of safer sex and safer drug use education, condoms and uncontaminated needles.1988 August 13, Mark O'Malley, “The Report of the Presidential Commission on HIV: An Analysis”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 5, page 3
    • Echoing Allen Ginsberg, he contends that the suburban setting of “Father Knows Best” is most accurately seen as America's “ludicrous breeding ground for the young meat who will be fed into its wars and rat races and inhuman conformities.”1989 April 30, Martha Bayles, quoting David Marc, “Taking Sitcoms Seriously”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of breeding-ground

pluralbreeding-grounds
alternative formbreeding ground

Questions about breeding-ground

What does breeding-ground mean?
Breeding-ground means a place or region where animals go to breed.
What part of speech is breeding-ground?
Breeding-ground is a noun.
What is the plural of breeding-ground?
The plural of breeding-ground is breeding-grounds.

Words near breeding-ground in the dictionary

  1. breeding hips
  2. breeding in the bone
  3. breeding like rabbits
  4. breeding true
  5. breeding up
  6. breeding-ground
  7. breeding-grounds
  8. breedings
  9. breedism
  10. breedist
  11. breedists

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