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Definition of Day nursery
1. Noun. A nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Day Nursery
Literary usage of Day nursery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1921)
"In the day nursery as a child-welfare agency these boundaries naturally fall into
the ... The day nursery is the ideal place for such an effort to be made, ..."
2. Problems of Child Welfare by George Benjamin Mangold (1914)
"The day nursery. The day nursery has a limited value in educating mothers, but
the total number of children cared for at the nurseries is insignificant ..."
3. Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, at the by National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.). Session (1898)
"THE SCOPE OF day nursery WORK. BY MARY H. DEWEY, BOSTON. ... The day nursery, in
its simplest, earliest form, was a home where the child might be left ..."
4. The Settlement Idea: A Vision of Social Justice by Arthur Cort Holden (1922)
"There is little doubt but that the day nursery, palliative though it may be,
operates with greater usefulness when balanced by the social service work of a ..."
5. Social Workers' Guide to the Serial Publications of Representative Social by Elsie Mitchell Rushmore, Russell Sage Foundation (1921)
"Willing day nursery Societe des creches fund New York, ... day nursery and free
kindergarten association day nursery bulletin of the United States National ..."