Breeding-ground

Synonyms for "breeding-ground"

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Related terms

3 entries

Translations

34 translations across 18 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • огнище noun (figuratively)

Catalan

2 entries
  • agre noun (place where animals breed)
  • planter noun (figuratively)

Czech

1 entries
  • líhniště noun (place where animals breed)

Danish

1 entries
  • legeplads noun (place where animals breed)

Dutch

1 entries
  • broedplaats noun (figuratively)

Finnish

4 entries
  • kasvualusta noun (figuratively)
  • kutupaikka noun (place where animals breed)
  • lisääntymisalue noun (place where animals breed)
  • soidinpaikka noun (place where animals breed)

French

3 entries
  • frayère noun (place where animals breed)
  • pépinière noun (figuratively)
  • vivier noun (figuratively)

German

4 entries
  • Brutplatz noun (place where animals breed)
  • Brutstätte noun (place where animals breed)
  • Brutstätte noun (figuratively)
  • Laichplatz noun (place where animals breed)

Greek

2 entries
  • εκτροφείο noun (place where animals breed)
  • εστία noun (figuratively)

Latin

1 entries
  • sēminārium noun (figuratively)

Polish

2 entries
  • lęgowisko noun (place where animals breed)
  • podatny grunt noun (figuratively)

Russian

3 entries
  • пито́мник noun (place where animals breed)
  • пито́мник noun (figuratively)
  • расса́дник noun (figuratively)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries
  • uzgajalište noun (place where animals breed)

Slovak

1 entries
  • liahnisko noun (place where animals breed)

Slovene

1 entries
  • vzrejališče noun (place where animals breed)

Spanish

2 entries
  • caldo de cultivo noun (figuratively)
  • semillero noun (figuratively)

Swedish

2 entries
  • grogrund noun (figuratively)
  • lekplats noun (place where animals breed)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • розплі́дник noun (place where animals breed)

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

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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.

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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.”

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What, wonder the denigrators, is county cricket for (if you ignore for a moment the small matter of providing a breeding-ground for the Test team)?

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