babylift

English

Etymology

From the name of Operation Babylift.

Noun

babylift (plural babylifts)

1. The evacuation of foreign children from abroad into a country for adoption.
   • 1978, Elwyn James Anthony, Colette Chiland, Children and their parents in a changing world, page 112:

     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, Gerald G. Hotchiss, Psychology Today, page 30:

     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.

   • 1995, Newsweek - Volume 125, page 802:

     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.

   • 2001, Danny Schechter, News Dissector: Passions, Pieces, and Polemics, page 108:

     They believe there was collusion between Lockheed and its friends in the Air Force to use the babylift to give the C-5 publicity.

   • 2010, Cheri Register, Are Those Kids Yours?: American Families With Children Adopted From Other Countries, →ISBN:

     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.

Danish

FWOTD – 11 June 2019

Etymology

From baby (“baby”) +‎ lift (“lift”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛjbiˌlift/

Noun

babylift c (singular definite babyliften, plural indefinite babylifter)

1. A lined box or cart with handles on the side that is used to carry babies; carrycot.
   • 2014, Per Bloch, Ti, tyve, tredive, C&K Forlag:

     Babyliften er grå og svajer i luften som den sejler ned igennem opgangen.

     The carrycot is grey and sways in the air as it sails down through the stairwell.

Inflection

Declension of babylift

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	babylift	babyliften	babylifter	babylifterne
genitive	babylifts	babyliftens	babylifters	babylifternes

Swedish

Etymology

baby +‎ English lift

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɪbʏˌlɪft/, /ˈbɛɪbʏlɪft/

Noun

babylift c

1. carrycot.
   • 2013, Klas Östergen, Gangsters, Albert Bonniers Förlag:

     Han satte sig i bilen igen och stängde dörren försiktigt för att inte väcka barnet som utmattat somnat i en babylift.

     He got in the car again and cautiously shut the door, so to not wake the baby which exhaustedly had fallen asleep in a carrycot.

Declension

Declension of babylift
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	babylift	babyliften	babyliftar	babyliftarna
Genitive	babylifts	babyliftens	babyliftars	babyliftarnas