noun
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A foster parent.
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Some fosters end up adopting.
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The care given to another; guardianship.
verb
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To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
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To cultivate and grow something.
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Our company fosters an appreciation for the arts.
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To nurse or cherish something.
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To be nurtured or trained up together.
adjective
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Providing parental care to children not related to oneself.
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foster parents
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Receiving such care.
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a foster child
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Related by such care.
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We are a foster family.
Examples of foster in a Sentence
She was an awful foster mom.
So you're not even official foster parents?
Quinn was a parentless foster kid and Martha's parents are gone.
Those are all the foster kids that have come to stay with us.
The English people on the other hand were not so prone to foster the money-lending business.
They want to see a greater focus on community to foster social cohesion.
Its aim is to foster cooperation on the growing number of transborder crimes.
Its mission is " to foster a greater appreciation for trees and to promote the research, technology and practice of professional arboriculture " .
Penn Foster specifically recommends its online curriculum to existing florists, event planners, or caterers who want to expand their businesses or find out more about the process of planning a wedding.
Menu options include a choice of varying chocolate fondues, such as bananas foster white chocolate, flaming turtle milk chocolate and raspberry infusion dark chocolate.
The industries which it has been the principal aim to foster and further develop are shipbuilding (naval and marine), steel foundries and rolling mills, sugar refineries, flour and oil mills, and distilleries.
The favourite object of adoration with adherents of these sects is Krishna with his mate - but not the devoted friend and counsellor of the Pandavas and deified hero of epic song, nor the ruler of Dvaraka and wedded lord of Rukmini, but the juvenile Krishna, Govinda or Bala Gopala, "the cowherd lad," the foster son of the cowherd Nanda of Gokula, taken up with his amorous sports with the Gopis, or wives of the cowherds of Vrindavana (Brindaban,near Mathura on the Yamuna), especially his favourite mistress Radha or Radhika.
Sancho also endeavoured to foster immigration and agriculture, by granting estates to the military orders and municipalities on condition that the occupiers should cultivate or colonize their lands.
He was a foster kid and didn't travel in our circles.
According to the brief phone call, the ten-year-old girl's natural mother, another loser like faux foster mother Janet, had been recently discharged to a halfway house after doing hard time in the state's Cañon City facility.
But of course the Government has also to foster the right economic climate to enable businesses and individuals to plan for the long term.
Its aim is to foster a greater culture of giving in the UK.
Not-for-profit adoptions commonly handle foster and special needs children.
Paranormal suspense is the foster child of romance, suspense and science fiction with the occasional horror thrown in.
The southern exposure of this littoral region, the shelter afforded against the bitter winds of the north by the lofty Caucasus range, and the copious rainfall all combine to foster a luxuriant and abundant vegetation.
A merchant vessel laden with Spanish wines was sent to Lough Swilly, and anchoring off Rathmullan, where the boy was residing in the castle of MacSweeny his foster parent, Hugh Roe with some youthful companions was enticed on board, when the ship immediately set sail and conveyed the party to Dublin.
This will foster a global appreciation that we are no longer isolated islands at the mercy of climate changes.
Leaders and managers require new knowledge and skills to foster innovation and manage rapid change.
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Its national reporting and learning system has been set up to facilitate national learning about unsafe practices and foster work to reduce adverse incidents.
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Stewart, with a striking likeness to a young Foster, also does a good job in her cinematic debut.
I would like to think we can foster this mentality, however, and would like to try with other course content.
The foster mom, sitting outside on the sidewalk on a lawn chair with a cat cage beside her.
After 2002's PANIC ROOM, Jodie Foster took a three year break before deciding to take another leading role in a major motion picture.
Peter Rabbit, himself, joined Senior Nurse Chris Milnes and General Manager Richard Foster to officially unveil the mural on 22nd February 2006.
Some of these are very needy, hence we try to get them into foster homes.
Many breeders today, use Bengalese Finches as foster parents.
It aims to foster world-class research in particle physics phenomenology.
You will have probably already have rec 'd a copy of the BPS draft response to Foster.
And is it possible for outsiders to foster reconciliation and peacebuilding?
In loving remembrance of dear Mrs Foster, from Gracie.
Its aim is to foster a multidisciplinary and intellectually rigorous debate on the theoretical and practical aspects of interactive media in education.
Tower Captain John Foster hopes that plenty of experienced twelve bell ringers will also be able to take part.
However, it will be not a timber replica but a transparent glass rotunda designed by Lord Foster of Thames Bank.
Foster argues that the fall of selenium levels trigger the reduction in CD4 cells, which in turn cause further decline in serum selenium.
The power of communication to foster behavioral change was at the core of most presentations given during the two-day seminar.
Thus a priority will be to foster a greater sense of security for rural communities.
Foster is definitely building his own sepulchers all over London.
Synopsis Agnes Meadowes is cook to the Blanchards of Foster Lane, the renowned silversmiths.
The natural mother told the social worker she knew that the foster father had a criminal conviction for sexual abuse of his young stepsister.
Agencies defined by subsection (4)(b) are voluntary organizations which place children with foster parents in their own right.
Social and political institutions may foster women's subservience and violence against them.
Levers need to be found to foster front line teamwork in public health in every locality.
Mhdx a dummy group health insurance lead telemarketing plan quot foster said compromises patient care.