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day nursery

noun

Definition of day nursery

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a school for children who are generally less than five years old committed to the needs of its employees with young children, the insurance company has its own on-site day nursery

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Recent Examples of day nursery It was already filled with a day nursery, sewing classes and Sunday school. — Carole Carlson, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2021 The organization’s beginning can be traced back to 1881, when a local women’s group named Western Association incorporated as Detroit Day Nursery and Kindergarten Association to provide a day nursery for working mothers. — Scott Talley, Detroit Free Press, 9 Apr. 2021 The house, Hello Magazine reports, comes with five reception rooms, three main bedrooms, dressing rooms, a night and day nursery, and staff quarters. — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 3 Nov. 2020

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The blaze appears to have been triggered by an air conditioning compressor explosion inside the nursery where the newborn babies were being cared for, rescue sources told CNN.

— Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026
Between 1935 and 1942, federal nurseries distributed over 85 million kudzu seedlings to Southern landowners, and the government offered farmers up to $8 per acre to plant the vine on their land.

— The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 Aug. 2026

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The 1865 Pine Grove Schoolhouse closed in 1949 and was used as a nursery school and then was used as a meeting space for the Boy Scouts.

— Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 28 Aug. 2026
Her father was a clothing manufacturer and her mother a Hunter College graduate who founded and ran a nursery school.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026

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