foster

IPA: fˈɑstɝ

(countable, informal) A foster parent.
(uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship.
(obsolete) A forester.
An English surname originating as an occupation, variant of Forster
A male given name transferred from the surname.
A placename
A number of places in the United States:
A former settlement in San Diego County, California.
An unincorporated community in Warren County, Indiana.
An unincorporated community in Bracken County, Kentucky.
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Big Stone County, Minnesota.
A village in Bates County, Missouri; named for Ohio governor Charles Foster.
A village in Pierce County, Nebraska; named for George Foster, original owner of town's site.
A town in Garvin County, Oklahoma.
An unincorporated community partly in Sweet Home, Linn County, Oregon.
A town in Providence County, Rhode Island; named for Rhode Island statesman Theodore Foster.
A town in Clark County, Wisconsin.
An unincorporated community in Clear Creek, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin.
A village in the town of Brome Lake, Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality, southern Quebec, Canada.
A town in South Gippsland Shire, south-east Victoria, Australia.
Ellipsis of Foster County. [One of 53 counties in North Dakota, United States. County seat: Carrington.]

(transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
(transitive) To promote the development of something; to cultivate and grow a thing.
(transitive) To nurse or cherish something.
(intransitive, obsolete) To be nurtured or trained up together.

Examples of "foster" in Sentences

You know, children in foster care are paid for by you – more $ down the drain ‘entitlements’, eh, bit?
To suggest she place her child in foster care is just uncalled for and should be called conduct unbecoming a gentleman.
One of the dogs now in foster is "Trey," a beautiful, 6 or 7-year-old red pit bull who was likely used for breeding fighting dogs.
One of the dogs now in foster is "Trey," a beautiful, 6 - or 7-year-old red pit bull who was likely used for breeding fighting dogs.
With there child foster care record of losing kids in foster care, you think they be so happy with the fact they actually know were this child is at.
The same folks who sign up for Teach for America or take in foster kids or worship a God who urges them to pass around the collection plate for people they've never met.