sperm bank
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3.7
- noun
- /spɜrm bæŋk/
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banco de semen
- It's a donor from a sperm bank.
- go to a sperm bank
- Donors at our sperm bank
- deposit in a sperm bank
But that sperm banks are not going to be in this study, you see, because to give to a sperm bank, you have to have a certain quality of sperm.
- But that sperm banks are not going to be in this study, you see, because to give to a sperm bank, you have to have a certain quality of sperm.
- It looks like somebody who fucking donates at a sperm bank.
- Is the janitor at a sperm bank?
Examples
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One of the most successful sperm banks in the world is called California Cryobank.
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One of the things a reputable sperm bank should do is screen for some of these conditions; it's a lot less chancy that way than meeting a random person on the internet.
Blog text (21) -
I went to one of those sperm banks, you know.
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Maybe I will go visit a sperm bank.
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Then I better find a good sperm bank.
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I went to the sperm bank.
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If this happens, a man can still father a child by using a sperm bank.
Academic text (2010) -
In fact, this woman engineer, where her daughter works, had a baby by using sperm she got from a sperm bank.
Fiction book (2000) -
Then you enter that criteria into a sperm bank search engine, which returns a list of matching anonymous males who passed rigorous genetic tests and filled out detailed questionnaires.
Blog text (32) -
I went to the sperm bank to donate because I wanted to help couples in need.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a facility where sperm is collected and stored' is directly compositional from 'sperm' (male reproductive cell) + 'bank' (a place for storing a supply). This repository sense of 'bank' is common cross-linguistically, so an average B1 learner who knows both constituent meanings will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Sperm bank uses bank in the ordinary sense of a safe place to keep something. People used the same idea as in 'blood bank', a place where donations are kept, so today sperm bank means a place where doctors collect and store sperm for later use.