Wiktionary
alt. A nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work. Generally more entertaining and less educational than a preschool, but with longer hours of operation. n. A nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work. Generally more entertaining and less educational than a preschool, but with longer hours of operation.
WordNet
n. a nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work [syn: day nursery]
Usage examples of "day care center".
I'm telling you, sometimes working there is like running a day care center or something.
I can understand how they exhaust you, especially after you've managed the day care center at the plant all day.
Once the children were of an age, I'd organize a community day care center, and eventually a cooperative preschool.
Skeeter wondered which one of that pair had done the killing in the day care center.
She borrowed the cots she needed from the day care center and told Sara McDouall that the boys were coming, and also told Zane that he would be seeing his two half-brothers while she gave her daughter a cuddle.
Boy, these people needed a social benefits program or at least a day care center, but that wasn't my job.
And the woman who ran the day care center our boys went to gave me literature about Jesus.