How to use foster in a sentence. To promote the growth or development of See examples of foster used in a sentence. To take care of a child, usually for a limited time, without being the child's legal parent 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 is to nurture something A teacher could foster creativity by providing crayons to every student You can also foster a child, which means the child lives in your home for a time. Explore the following resources to learn more about foster care. [transitive, intransitive] foster (somebody) (especially british english) 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
(in combination) indicating relationship through fostering and not through birth Foster mother, foster child (in combination) of or involved in the rearing of a child by persons other than the child's natural or adopted parents
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