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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
foster
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a foster parent (=someone who has other people's children living with them)
▪ Teresa was removed from her mother's care and placed with foster parents.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attitude
▪ This has tended to foster a very negative attitude towards this form of provision and the staff who work in such units.
▪ To foster desirable attitudes and change behaviour. 8. to allow experts into the classroom. 9.
child
▪ The children were taken to foster homes where they will be kept until a determination can be made about their future.
▪ Under the 1958 Children Act, local authorities have a duty to ensure the well-being of children who are fostered privately.
development
▪ They fostered the development of a new, urban, cultural tradition.
▪ Some inherent dilemmas in boss-subordinate relationships can undermine their capacity to foster development.
▪ What can be said is that the Basic Law has not hindered but has indeed fostered the development of political practice.
government
▪ In the first instance the government was aiming to foster a private sector in small and medium-sized enterprises.
▪ In our view, he was the only one who could possibly bring about municipal government reform and foster economic growth.
▪ The heads of government also promised to foster equality for women, and universal access to education.
▪ This is an example of government efforts to foster new initiatives by creating an agency outside of direct central political control.
growth
▪ To foster growth such resources must be developed, but this, however, necessitates increased investment.
▪ They liked books and ideas, and they liked to talk about them in ways that fostered growth rather than established dominance.
▪ The follow-through not only helps children meet their responsibility, it also fosters the growth of good work habits and autonomy.
▪ In our view, he was the only one who could possibly bring about municipal government reform and foster economic growth.
illusion
▪ Political warfare fosters the illusion of an active system full of excitement and competition.
relationship
▪ And, as we have already seen, it is the Bible's function to feed and foster such a relationship.
▪ In all this, music has a significant role to play in enabling and fostering closer relationships between the denominations.
▪ Achievement provides most of the stroking and fosters the relationship.
▪ Our aim should be to foster more equal relationships with disabled people.
spirit
▪ Directors also strive to foster a cooperative spirit and friendly attitude among employees and a compassionate demeanor toward the families.
▪ A J Lubin does suggest that his experiences in the Borinage fostered a revolutionary spirit in him.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Fostering a teenager is obviously different from fostering a small child.
▪ During my mother's long illness I was fostered by a middle-aged couple on the other side of town.
▪ Recent studies show that advertising usually fosters competition and therefore lower prices.
▪ The Hammonds fostered a little Romanian boy for a few months.
▪ The workshops can foster better communication between husbands and wives.
▪ These classroom activities are intended to foster children's language skills.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Guideline 7: Show your affection and foster your child's love and respect.
▪ In 1954 Britain had fostered the Baghdad Pact to create a band of friendly pro-Western states against the Soviet threat.
▪ Might which controls and appropriates solely for self fosters an appetite for even more power.
▪ Planning policies of concentration have fostered this, sometimes to facilitate the provision of amenities and services to housing.
▪ Reiteration of a decade-old deception could not fail to foster an enhanced sense of futility.
▪ Social networks, for example, might be fostered for those at risk of becoming isolated.
▪ The care programme approach was seen to foster dependency in two ways, on the part of clients and on the part of staff.
▪ The sequential maturation of the intellectual and social aspects fosters a sense of assurance in the child and acceptance by others.
II.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
brother
▪ The two play New York subway cops who also are foster brothers.
▪ She knew her foster brother was unreliable.
care
▪ There, Rita says, she will take parenting classes to get her son back from foster care.
▪ As infants in foster care, both girls had suffered physically and emotionally.
▪ And why identify residential and foster care alone as areas to be staffed entirely by females?
▪ As it turned out, John and his sister had been through some twenty-three moves in foster care.
▪ Young people in children's homes or foster care are deprived of books and the opportunity to share books with adults.
▪ Her children were placed in foster care and she had no place to go.
▪ They never put us in foster care.
▪ Once they are enmeshed in the often-chaotic foster care system it is extraordinarily difficult to get out of it.
child
▪ Other foster children with happy memories did the same, though distance and new relationships combined to make contact sporadic.
▪ As a result, the report said, one in 10 foster children remains in the system for more than seven years.
▪ You depict rare occurrences - like Westerners paying for foster children to visit their affluent country - as a major problem.
▪ These foster children are not available for adoption.
▪ It was alleged that one of their foster children had recently been threatened with a knife.
▪ Nationally, a disproportionate 48 percent of all foster children are minorities.
daughter
▪ Down through the garden came servants and foster daughters carrying the cases of engagement presents and the engagement jewels.
▪ Roland then removed the spell from himself and the good foster daughter.
▪ It was Amina, one of the Sheikha's foster daughters.
▪ April: The good foster daughter.
▪ The second foster daughter soon followed, coming in with a bound.
▪ The Plot A long time ago, a witch had an evil and ugly daughter and a good and beautiful foster daughter.
family
▪ Children under 13 years in Flanders tend to be placed with foster families rather than in residential care.
▪ They will be cared for by a foster family while a court in Missouri decides where they should make their permanent home.
▪ The children, many of them orphans, were to have spent Christmas with 60 foster families in Wigan and Leeds.
▪ During the next few months, Gilly starts to become very fond of her new foster family.
father
▪ The hand, of course, belonged to her great-uncle and foster father.
▪ His foster father, who is his uncle, stated that Jimmy may have some learning disabilities.
▪ Foster father reports that Jimmy is worried about his uncle, foster father, dying.
home
▪ This is, as already indicated, a foster home where practicable.
▪ It relies on foster homes to provide rescued pets a supportive place to recover until good owners can be found.
▪ She was told one of her daughters was receiving tuition in her foster home.
▪ Meanwhile, it apparently was consistent with their policy for the girls to languish in a foster home.
▪ Carlie had to go to the foster home because she couldn't get along with her stepfather.
▪ The next day they came back and removed him to a temporary foster home.
▪ All the parents were told that their children were in very nice foster homes, with very nice families.
▪ When John left this last facility, Social Services offered to place him in a therapeutic foster home.
parent
▪ On 13 December 1991 emergency protection orders were made and the children were placed with foster parents.
▪ Apparently I was not the only prospective foster parent who was treated by society staff like a pariah.
▪ On that occasion, they returned to Berkeley with a coachload of other would-be foster parents empty-handed.
▪ Another revelation: enthusiastic volunteers were not necessarily best-suited to be foster parents, either by temperament or circumstances.
▪ There is also the proximity of the proposed foster parents and her own siblings.
▪ The eight-month-old baby is recovering with Middlesbrough foster parents following the operation to remove water from the brain.
▪ The local authority obtained an emergency protection order and placed the girl with foster parents.
▪ He thought that preferable to the child's being in an institution or with foster parents.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Half a million American children are in foster care at any given time.
▪ He ran away after his foster-mother accused him of stealing.
▪ It is sometimes difficult to find suitable foster-parents for a lively ten-year-old.
▪ She added to her regular income by taking in foster-children.
▪ She finally adopted her foster-child, six-year old Shania.
▪ Steve went to live in a series of foster homes.
▪ two New York subway cops who are also foster brothers
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a result, the report said, one in 10 foster children remains in the system for more than seven years.
▪ Hospital documents had begun showing recommendations that Jackie be placed in foster care as early as 1973.
▪ Nationally, a disproportionate 48 percent of all foster children are minorities.
▪ Other foster children with happy memories did the same, though distance and new relationships combined to make contact sporadic.
▪ The local authority obtained an emergency protection order and placed the girl with foster parents.
▪ The magistrates chairman told foster parents had given him a chance - it was now up to him to take it.
▪ There was greater contentment there than within the average hostel or foster home and most certainly a greater sense of personal fulfilment.
▪ These foster children are not available for adoption.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foster

Foster \Fos"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fostered, p. pr. & vb. n. Fostering.] [OE. fostren, fr. AS. f[=o]ster, f[=o]stor, food, nourishment, fr. f[=o]da food. [root]75. See Food.]

  1. To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.

    Some say that ravens foster forlorn children.
    --Shak.

  2. To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius.

Foster

Foster \Fos"ter\, v. i. To be nourished or trained up together. [Obs.]
--Spenser.

Foster

Foster \Fos"ter\, a. [AS. f[=o]ster, f[=o]stor, nourishment. See Foster, v. t.] Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood. Foster babe or Foster child, an infant or child nursed or raised by a woman not its mother, or bred by a man not its father. Foster brother, Foster sister, one who is, or has been, nursed at the same breast, or brought up by the same nurse as another, but is not of the same parentage. Foster dam, one who takes the place of a mother; a nurse. --Dryden. Foster earth, earth by which a plant is nourished, though not its native soil. --J. Philips. Foster father, a man who takes the place of a father in caring for a child. --Bacon. Foster land.

  1. Land allotted for the maintenance of any one. [Obs.]

  2. One's adopted country.

    Foster lean [foster + AS. l[ae]n a loan See Loan.], remuneration fixed for the rearing of a foster child; also, the jointure of a wife. [Obs.]
    --Wharton.

    Foster mother, a woman who takes a mother's place in the nurture and care of a child; a nurse.

    Foster nurse, a nurse; a nourisher. [R.]
    --Shak.

    Foster parent, a foster mother or foster father.

    Foster son, a male foster child.

Foster

Foster \Fos"ter\, n. A forester. [Obs.]
--Spenser.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
foster

Old English *fostrian "to supply with food, nourish, support," from fostor "food, nourishment, bringing up," from Proto-Germanic *fostra-, from extended form of PIE root *pa- "to protect; feed" (see food).\n

\nMeaning "to bring up a child with parental care" is from c.1200; that of "to encourage or help grow" is early 13c. of things; 1560s of feelings, ideas, etc. Old English also had the word as an adjective meaning "in the same family but not related," in fostorfæder, fostorcild, fostormodoretc. Related: Fostered; fostering.

Wiktionary
foster

  1. 1 Providing parental care to unrelated children. 2 Receiving such care 3 Related by such care n. 1 (context countable obsolete English) A forester 2 (context uncountable English) The care given to another; guardianship v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To nurture or bring up offspring; or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child. 2 (context transitive English) To cultivate and grow something. 3 (context transitive English) To nurse or cherish something. 4 (context intransitive obsolete English) To be nurtured or trained up together.

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WordNet
foster

adj. providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties; "foster parent"; "foster child"; "foster home"; "surrogate father" [syn: surrogate]

foster

  1. v. promote the growth of; "Foster our children's well-being and education" [syn: further]

  2. bring up under fosterage; of children

  3. help develop, help grow; "nurture his talents" [syn: nurture]

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Gazetteer
Foster, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 63
Housing Units (2000): 34
Land area (2000): 0.216290 sq. miles (0.560188 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.216290 sq. miles (0.560188 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17320
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 42.273681 N, 97.665357 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68737
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Foster, NE
Foster
Foster, MO -- U.S. village in Missouri
Population (2000): 130
Housing Units (2000): 63
Land area (2000): 0.468388 sq. miles (1.213119 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.004659 sq. miles (0.012067 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.473047 sq. miles (1.225186 sq. km)
FIPS code: 25372
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 38.165674 N, 94.507017 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 64745
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Foster, MO
Foster
Foster -- U.S. County in North Dakota
Population (2000): 3759
Housing Units (2000): 1793
Land area (2000): 635.200527 sq. miles (1645.161743 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 11.516196 sq. miles (29.826810 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 646.716723 sq. miles (1674.988553 sq. km)
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 47.464369 N, 98.894282 W
Headwords:
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Foster, ND
Foster County
Foster County, ND
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Wikipedia
Foster

Foster may refer to:

Foster (crater)

Foster is a small lunar crater that lies to the southeast of the larger crater Joule, on the far side of the Moon. The rim of Foster is slightly eroded, and the narrow inner walls slope directly down to the relatively dark interior floor. The rim has a small outward bulge along the southwest side. There is a small craterlet on the floor next to the northern rim. A tiny impact in the southeast part of the crater interior is surrounded by a small skirt of high albedo material, producing a bright patch.

Foster (surname)

The surname Foster (Forster, or Forester) derives from the ancient title and office bestowed upon those overseeing the upkeep and administration of hunting territories belonging to either the monarch, or bishop (where empowered to grant warren). The title begins to be adopted as a surname, in the historical record, from the 12th and 13th centuries onwards.

Foster (film)

Foster (a.k.a. Angel in the House) is a 2011 British comedy-drama film written and directed by Jonathan Newman, based on his 2005 short film. Part of it was shot at Legoland Windsor in April 2010. The film stars Golden Globe winner Toni Collette, Ioan Gruffudd, Richard E. Grant, BAFTA Award winner Hayley Mills and Maurice Cole.

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Usage examples of "foster".

I decided on the journey here that if Lady Agatine was not to be allowed what I may call Foster Mother-Right, then I would place an option before the Council that clearly favors her Blood Mother-Right.

The singular jealousy of the Venetians for the solidarity of their government, with their no less singular jealousy of individual aggrandizement, together with the rare perception of mental characteristics that was fostered by the daily culture of the councils in which every noble took his part, led them constantly to ignore their selfish hopes in order to choose the right man for the place.

The training offered by the priests of Amel is to look beyond the illusion of opposites fostered by the grid and to master the instinctual responses those opposites provoke.

This man, who had given up everything in life except his own self, fostered an amorous inclination, in spite of his age and of his gout.

A society controlled by the privileged few in the Central Consortium, the governing body, who fostered the undercurrent of conduct, superiority, and promotion of Avion to the rest of the universe.

I met up with Foster at the Pan Pan just in time for an early lunch of juicy barbecued ribs and an excellent chopped barbecued-pork sandwich.

There hobbles Goody Foster, a sour and bitter old beldam, looking as if she went to curse, and not to pray, and whom many of her neighbors suspect of taking an occasional airing on a broomstick.

Sandy Foster, football bohunk extraordinaire, leaned forward and handed them both cold beers, after throwing his own empty through the open T-top.

In visiting the meetings in those parts we were measurably baptized into a feeling of the state of the Society, and in bowedness of spirit went to the Yearly Meeting at Newport, where we met with John Storer from England, Elizabeth Shipley, Ann Gaunt, Hannah Foster, and Mercy Redman, from our parts, all ministers of the gospel, of whose company I was glad.

Place next to where I was fostered at your age, old Lady Cedrys at Briary Holding.

He wondered just what Ned Buntline had written in his deposition that had fostered that idea.

The Carabinieri Corps fostered a certain level of healthy paranoia among its men and women.

Burly sat in a cathedra chair in one of his smaller rooms of audience with Sir Bass Foster, Duke of Norfolk, seated in a lower-backed armchair across an inlaid table from him.

And nobody remembering that Foster figured the civvies would chill us--and he was right.

Foster remembered confronting a tall, slender man, probably a chief, as he was mounted on a bay cobby and wore a rust-spotted chain-mail hauberk.