Babylift

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

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"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."

Etymology

From the name of Operation Babylift.

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