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Foster Fostering Fostered Verb Child Family Period Time

word foster
definition
verb
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.
To foster something such as an activity or idea means to help it to develop.
Developed countries should foster global economic growth to help new democracies.
Its cash crisis has been fostered by declining property values.
inflections fostersfosteringfostered
cefr-level C1

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1

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