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