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Day nursery   /deɪ nˈərsəri/   Listen
Day nursery

noun
1.
A nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work.  Synonym: day care center.






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"Day nursery" Quotes from Famous Books



... out of every thousand born in New York died last year. Only thirty-eight babies died in Montclair, N.J., out of every thousand born during the same period. Much credit for this low rate of infant mortality in the latter city is given the Montclair Day Nursery which prescribes the following decade of baby ...
— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

... or three months later, and just before the little things were moved back from London to their country home; and when they were in bed in their sleeping room, as usual, and the nurse had left them, and had shut the door between them and the day nursery, where she sat at work, the elder child called out in a whisper ...
— Aunt Judy's Tales • Mrs Alfred Gatty

... the day nursery. There was a stool by the window. The fairy jumped on the stool and then down, ...
— Danger! and Other Stories • Arthur Conan Doyle

... to buy an army hut for use as a day nursery. It is this policy of petty insult that is bound in the end to goad the military forces in ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, August 18th, 1920 • Various



Words linked to "Day nursery" :   baby's room, day care center, nursery



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