foster Definition
fos·ter (fôs′tər, fäs′-)
transitive verb
- to bring up with care; rear
- to help to grow or develop; stimulate; promote to foster discontent
- to cling to in one's mind; cherish foster a hope
Etymology: ME fostren < OE fostrian, to nourish, bring up < fostor, food, nourishment < base of foda, food
adjective
- having the standing of a specified member of the family, though not by birth or adoption, and giving, receiving, or sharing the care appropriate to that standing foster parent, foster brother
- designating or relating to such care
foster Related Forms
Foster Definition
Fos·ter (fôs′tər, fäs′-)
Foster, Stephen Collins 1826-64; U.S. composer of songs
Foster, William Z(ebulon) 1881-1964; U.S. Communist Party leader
foster Synonyms
foster
v.
foster Usage Examples
Object
- co-operation: The Plan also encouraged joint assessments of needs and joint requests for aid to foster regional co-operation between recipients.
- entrepreneurship: Enterprise Specialist Schools will foster entrepreneurship and act as centers of expertise in the teaching of economics and business in parallel with enterprise.
- collaboration: The new program will also support networks to foster collaboration between researchers.
- cooperation: Its aim is to foster cooperation on the growing number of transborder crimes.
- appreciation: This will foster a global appreciation that we are no longer isolated islands at the mercy of climate changes.
- creativity: Weaving his personal journey with his revelations about Chinese education, Gardner plows new ground for thinking about and fostering creativity.
Preposition: by
government: Unfortunately, there are also signs of increasing popular nationalism and racial tensions, fostered by both governments and some union leaders.
Modifies a noun
- carer: Being a foster carer involves caring for a child in your own home.
- carers: Foster carers never try to replace a child's parents, they are helping their families to reunite.
- parent: From around 1900, the union increasingly placed pauper children in small cottage homes or boarded out with foster parents.
- vp: Political economy of also eligible Washington Department of Labor and Industries for foster vp the physicians get.
- placement: Prior to this I was living in a foster placement.
- mother: Doctors have to manage mothers and fathers, social workers, medical students and foster mothers.
Modifying Another Word
- privately: Children are privately fostered for a variety of reasons.
- actively: We need to make an effort to start schemes ourselves, and get local authorities actively fostering and encouraging community wind power.
- carefully: Yet the impression of a clear antagonism between church and state which emerges from the last years of the war is carefully fostered.
- rather: Can we really trust learners regardless of their skills level to provide evaluation that will foster rather than misguide and thus hinder learning?
- also: It is also fostered by the fear of this great unknown called death.
- about: For more information about fostering please contact the Family Placement Team.
Present participle complement
learn: It fosters learning opportunities for people: " nurturing their social, emotional, cognitive and physical development.
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