ベビーホテル

noun

unlicensed child care facility; baby hotel

A wasei-eigo term for a private, often unlicensed, childcare facility that operates extended hours, sometimes overnight. Not a hotel for babies in the English sense.

wasei-eigo (Japanese-coined English), from baby hotel

• 共とも働ばたらきのため、夜や間かんはベビーホテルに子こどもを預あずけている。

  Because we both work, we leave our child at a baby hotel at night.

• この地ち域いきには認にん可か外がいのベビーホテルがいくつかある。

  There are several unlicensed baby hotels in this area.