Select the option that best explains the information conveyed in the sentence.

The police are looking for the woman who farmed her children out to her neighbours.

  • A The police wanted the woman for allowing her children to destroy her neighbour's crops.
  • B The woman and her children are in the habit of working in neighbour's farms and the police are not well disposed to this
  • C The police may arrest the woman for allowing her neighbours to take care of her children.
  • D The woman may be arrested for allowing her children to be a nuisance to her neighbours
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The correct answer is C. The police may arrest the woman for allowing her neighbours to take care of her children.

farm out;  to give work to other people to do.  To place one's child in someone else's care.

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