| Front | foster |
|---|---|
| Back | fos•ter verb, adjective BrE /ˈfɒstə(r)/ NAmE /ˈfɔːstər/ NAmE /ˈfɑːstər/ verb verb forms word origin collocations example bank 1 [transitive] ~ sth to encourage sth to develop encourage, promote The club's aim is to foster better relations within the community. 2 [transitive, intransitive] ~ (sb) (especially BrE) to take another person's child into your home for a period of time, without becoming his or her legal parents They have fostered over 60 children during the past ten years. We couldn't adopt a child, so we decided to foster. compare adopt adjective word origin example bank [only before noun] used with some nouns in connection with the fostering of a child a foster mother/father/family foster parents a foster child a foster home foster care |
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