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child trafficking

child trafficking noun: a form of human trafficking that involves the kidnapping of a child for purposes of exploitation.

Noun

child trafficking (uncountable)

  1. A form of human trafficking that involves the kidnapping of a child for purposes of exploitation.
    • This would make the distinction extremely delicate in some cases between child trafficking and migration for employment of adolescents above the minimum working age.2005, International Labour Office, Human Trafficking and Forced Labour Exploitation, page 24
    • Stressing the link between 'child trafficking' and the sex industry operates to underscore the profoundly damaging consequences of 'trafficking' and to unequivocally construct those involved as either victims or villains.2017, Pete Fussey, Paddy Rawlinson, Child Trafficking in the EU, page 45

Questions about child trafficking

What does child trafficking mean?
Child trafficking means a form of human trafficking that involves the kidnapping of a child for purposes of exploitation.
What part of speech is child trafficking?
Child trafficking is a noun.

Words near child trafficking in the dictionary

  1. child soldiers
  2. child support
  3. CHILD syndrome
  4. child toucher
  5. child touchers
  6. child trafficking
  7. child's play
  8. child's pose
  9. child's poses
  10. child-abuser
  11. child-abusers

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