Boarder-baby
an infant or young child who is abandoned or orphaned and left in a hospital for lack of a foster home.
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- Boarder
a person, especially a lodger, who is supplied with regular meals. a member of a boarding party. Contemporary Examples More on the (Not Actually Debunked) Bully Story Michael Tomasky May 10, 2012 Historical Examples Chester Rand Horatio Alger, Jr Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 Lucy Maud Montgomery The Bail Jumper Robert J. […]
- Boarding
wooden boards collectively. a structure of boards, as in a fence or a floor. the act of a person who boards a ship, train, airplane, or the like: an uneventful boarding. a piece of wood sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth compared with the thickness. a flat slab of wood or other material […]
- Boarding--house
a house at which board or board and lodging may be obtained for payment. Contemporary Examples A Pink Rethink: Breast-Cancer Spending Comes Under the Microscope Abigail Pesta April 25, 2012 Far-Right Texas Terrorist Planned Murder And Robbery Spree in the Name of ‘Liberty’ Caitlin Dickson March 31, 2014 Making It in the 2-1-2: How Kenneth […]
- Boardinghouse
a house at which board or board and lodging may be obtained for payment. Historical Examples Strictly Business O. Henry In the Year of Jubilee George Gissing The Jungle Upton Sinclair The Jungle Upton Sinclair The Conquest of America Cleveland Moffett The Story of the Mormons William Alexander Linn The Boy Scout Richard Harding Davis […]
- Boarding-out
noun (social welfare, Brit) the local-authority practice of placing a client in a foster family or voluntary establishment and paying for it (as modifier): boarding-out allowances Historical Examples Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 702 Various Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution John Adams Miss […]