FOSTER


Meaning of FOSTER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ fɒstə(r), AM fɔ:st- ]

( fosters, fostering, fostered)

1.

Foster parents are people who officially take a child into their family for a period of time, without becoming the child’s legal parents. The child is referred to as their foster child.

Little Jack was placed with foster parents...

ADJ : ADJ n

2.

If you foster a child, you take it into your family for a period of time, without becoming its legal parent.

She has since gone on to find happiness by fostering more than 100 children.

VERB : V n

3.

To foster something such as an activity or idea means to help it to develop.

He said that developed countries had a responsibility to foster global economic growth to help new democracies...

VERB : V n

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