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babylift en · NOUN

Etymology

From the name of Operation Babylift.

Meanings

1. The evacuation of foreign children from abroad into a country for adoption.
   • Over the next few weeks, on the Pan Am 747s and on military flights that followed, about 1,400 orphans rode the babylift to America. 1995, Newsweek - Volume 125, page 802:
   • 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. 1978, Elwyn James Anthony, Colette Chiland, Children and their parents in a changing world, page 112:
   • There are ominous implications for babylift children in the story of Leigh Marsh, an adopted Korean child who lost eight years in the Connecticut public school system. 1978, Gerald G. Hotchiss, Psychology Today, page 30:
   • Holt speeded up its efforts when the end of the war became imminent but kept a distance from the babylift by refusing an offer to use military transport planes. 2010, Cheri Register, Are Those Kids Yours?: American Families With Children Adopted From Other Countries, →ISBN:
   • They believe there was collusion between Lockheed and its friends in the Air Force to use the babylift to give the C-5 publicity. 2001, Danny Schechter, News Dissector: Passions, Pieces, and Polemics, page 108:

Forms

wikipedia: Operation Babylift