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  • noun Plural form of creche.

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Examples

  • Nacimientos are especially important in Guadalajara, due to the artistic influence of Tlaquepaque, where many figures are made and a competition of creches is held each year.

    Christmas holidays in Mexico: festivals of light, love and peace 2006

  • Nacimientos are especially important in Guadalajara, due to the artistic influence of Tlaquepaque, where many figures are made and a competition of creches is held each year.

    Christmas holidays in Mexico: festivals of light, love and peace 2006

  • Goats were monitored at one week old, when they tend to stay hidden from predators in sibling groups, and again at five weeks old when they form larger social groups with other animals the same age, known as creches.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2012

  • Other programmes such as creches and employment programmes for people with disabilities, serve largely black people.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • The statement said the subsidies assisted welfare organisations in providing social work and community services, and to run facilities such as creches, children's homes, homes for the aged and for people with disabilities, and treatment centres for drug dependents.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • They are replacing books with computers and so becoming mere 'creches' instead of places of education and excitement, said Frank Cottrell Boyce.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • The state government will request the Centre to consider decriminalising such offences and instead facilitate those mothers who are willing to retain their babies to do so through programmes and schemes such as creches or day-care centres, "the draft plan says.

    Daily News & Analysis 2010

  • The wide-ranging report also suggested that defunct stores be turned into gyms, creches and bingo halls to kick start community regeneration as well as a "National Market Day" to drive footfall on to local high streets.

    Mary Portas rescue plan: yoga studios, bingo halls, and a minister for shops 2011

  • Last year the government asked TV presenter Mary Portas to come up with plan to save the high street and her subsequent report made 28 recommendations including "town teams" to lead community regeneration projects and the relaxation of planning laws to allow defunct stores to be turned into gyms, creches and bingo halls.

    North-South retail trade divide opens up as high streets decline 2012

  • Municipal creches barely survived a Supreme Court challenge in 1984; at some point the one in Tenafly disappeared anyway.

    David Van Biema: Bad News Psalms David Van Biema 2012

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