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• breeding ground

Noun

breeding-ground ‎(plural breeding-grounds)

1. A place or region where animals go to breed.
2. (figuratively) A place or institution seen as creating large numbers of a stated thing, type of person, etc.
   • 2007, Lawrence Booth, The Guardian, 18 December 2007:

     What, wonder the denigrators, is county cricket for (if you ignore for a moment the small matter of providing a breeding-ground for the Test team)?

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• ground

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