babylift

From the name of Operation Babylift.

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.

From baby (“baby”) +‎ lift (“lift”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛjbiˌlift/

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.

baby +‎ English lift

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

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.