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Definition of foster in English: fosterverb ˈfɒstə [with object]1Encourage the development of (something, especially something desirable) 鼓励;促进 the teacher's task is to foster learning 教师的任务是促进学习。 Example sentencesExamples - The sports will preferably offer participation in a team-based environment that encourages and fosters the development of esprit de corps.
- We believe that the Animal Enterprise Act must be updated to ensure that individuals and companies are protected and drug development is fostered.
- Appropriate use of such assessments fosters learning and development and positively affects commitment and retention.
- From the perspective of immigrant writers it seems clear that Anglo-American culture fosters and encourages cheerfulness, positive thinking, and staying in control.
- A sense of reverence and humility foster the spirit most conducive to creation.
- Academic freedom should be more highly valued and more actively fostered.
- These, he said, are the fundamentals of the interactive participative learning environment that can foster an innovative culture in Ireland.
- A writing contest is one approach, but there are many other ways that a newsroom can foster a learning culture that is dedicated to excellence.
- Since laughter is often contagious, it also fosters a sense of connection to others.
- Educational efforts, on the other hand, trigger guilt, thereby fostering the retreat into further denial.
- Online writing workshops, discussion sites and newsletters also foster a sense of writing community.
- Rewards assisted in encouraging and fostering a positive learning environment.
- Fourth, the environment that a company builds should foster learning and the exchange of knowledge.
- Now, there is an opportunity to foster understanding and dialogue.
- Is this going to help change things and foster understanding?
- Both support learners in articulating their knowledge and thus foster learning as a constructive process.
- Inflationary policies conducted for long periods of time not only foster the growth of government but also depress economic activity.
- We are becoming increasingly aware of this explosion of scholarship, and we want to do everything in our power to encourage and foster this development.
- The temple can serve to foster spiritual growth and development.
- The group's attempts to be more than a talk shop have often only fostered more discord.
Synonyms encourage, promote, further, stimulate, advance, forward, cultivate, nurture, strengthen, enrich, help, aid, abet, assist, contribute to, support, endorse, champion, speak for, proselytize, sponsor, espouse, uphold, back, boost, give backing to, facilitate - 1.1 Develop (a feeling or idea) in oneself.
培养;助长(感情,观念) appropriate praise helps a child foster a sense of self-worth 适当表扬有助于树立孩子的自尊心。 Example sentencesExamples - Since the students and other volunteers accomplish most of the work, a sense of community pride is fostered.
- Take a big does of Venus, goddess of beauty and love, and use her energy to foster a healthy self-esteem and noble sense of self-worth.
- The advertisements kids see around the holidays can help foster unrealistic expectations and lead to disappointment.
- My beef is the lack of communication that often fosters false expectations in patients, who then blame the local doctors when things turn out worse than they hoped.
2Bring up (a child that is not one's own by birth) 收养,领养 a person who would foster Holly was found Example sentencesExamples - We grew up together while a close friend of my mother was fostering me.
- Finally, we built an extension for the kids and we have also fostered children over the years.
- Each year a group of local people who have been to Russia and now have fostered children run a dinner dance in Tubbercurry.
- Caroline gained her understanding of what was required when looking after children when she helped with her younger siblings, and watching her parents who fostered babies and young children.
- What is most noteworthy about them is that they are indistinguishable from those who fostered children in the context of informal circulation.
- My parents foster kids all the time and they wouldn't have minded at all.
- One of the raids was at the home of an elderly woman in a wheelchair and another was at the house of a pensioner who fostered children.
- Porter reveals plan to foster children with special needs
- My parents fostered my mother's half-sister's daughter for a year.
- I know someone who fostered a child for over ten years.
- But if you only foster a child for part of the year - which you may, since your children take you on holiday and so forth - you get the pension credit back at the full rate for the time you don't work.
- Serena Allott talks to parents whose willingness to foster children ensures that the nest is never empty.
- A daughter whose parents fostered more than 20 children in Bradford is seeking help to track them down as a 60th birthday present for her father.
- Apart from their own seven children and step-children, he and his wife fostered a child from the age of four.
- This may be getting more involved than they contemplated when they agreed to foster children for the local authority.
- As someone who has successfully fostered a child who is now an adult, Pat Whelen said she would definitely recommend it.
- At the moment we have a particular need for people from ethnic backgrounds and those prepared to foster children over 10.
- So in my middle 30s I fostered many children and am in the process of finalizing the adoption of two of them.
- But the baby boy isn't Karen's son, he is one of the children she and her husband are fostering.
Synonyms bring up, rear, raise, care for, take care of, look after, nurture, provide for mother, parent - 2.1British (of a parent or authority) assign (a child) to be brought up by someone other than its parents.
〈英〉(父母,权力机构)把(孩子)交托给养父母 when fostering out a child, placement workers will be looking for a home similar to their own 交托儿童抚养时,安置人员会找与其家庭类似的家庭。 Example sentencesExamples - Verina Weaver, executive councillor for social care, revealed how a number of people were caring for children fostered out by Essex.
- The child was fostered out and lived for years in Manchester.
OriginOld English fōstrian 'feed, nourish', from fōster 'food, nourishment', of Germanic origin; related to food. The sense 'bring up another's (originally also one's own) child' dates from Middle English. See also foster-. food from Old English: Recorded since the beginning of the 11th century, food is related to fodder (Old English) and foster (Old English), originally found in the sense ‘feed, nourish’. It can refer to mental as well as physical nourishment—the expression food for thought to indicate something that deserves serious consideration has been in use since the early 19th century. Cannon fodder for soldiers regarded as expendable dates from the First World War.
RhymesCosta, coster, defroster, Gloucester, impostor, paternoster, roster Definition of foster in US English: fosterverb [with object]1Encourage or promote the development of (something, typically something regarded as good) 鼓励;促进 the teacher's task is to foster learning 教师的任务是促进学习。 Example sentencesExamples - From the perspective of immigrant writers it seems clear that Anglo-American culture fosters and encourages cheerfulness, positive thinking, and staying in control.
- Educational efforts, on the other hand, trigger guilt, thereby fostering the retreat into further denial.
- The sports will preferably offer participation in a team-based environment that encourages and fosters the development of esprit de corps.
- We believe that the Animal Enterprise Act must be updated to ensure that individuals and companies are protected and drug development is fostered.
- The group's attempts to be more than a talk shop have often only fostered more discord.
- Inflationary policies conducted for long periods of time not only foster the growth of government but also depress economic activity.
- These, he said, are the fundamentals of the interactive participative learning environment that can foster an innovative culture in Ireland.
- Appropriate use of such assessments fosters learning and development and positively affects commitment and retention.
- Now, there is an opportunity to foster understanding and dialogue.
- Online writing workshops, discussion sites and newsletters also foster a sense of writing community.
- Academic freedom should be more highly valued and more actively fostered.
- We are becoming increasingly aware of this explosion of scholarship, and we want to do everything in our power to encourage and foster this development.
- Rewards assisted in encouraging and fostering a positive learning environment.
- Both support learners in articulating their knowledge and thus foster learning as a constructive process.
- Is this going to help change things and foster understanding?
- A sense of reverence and humility foster the spirit most conducive to creation.
- Since laughter is often contagious, it also fosters a sense of connection to others.
- A writing contest is one approach, but there are many other ways that a newsroom can foster a learning culture that is dedicated to excellence.
- The temple can serve to foster spiritual growth and development.
- Fourth, the environment that a company builds should foster learning and the exchange of knowledge.
Synonyms encourage, promote, further, stimulate, advance, forward, cultivate, nurture, strengthen, enrich, help, aid, abet, assist, contribute to, support, endorse, champion, speak for, proselytize, sponsor, espouse, uphold, back, boost, give backing to, facilitate - 1.1 Develop (a feeling or idea) in oneself.
培养;助长(感情,观念) appropriate praise helps a child foster a sense of self-worth 适当表扬有助于树立孩子的自尊心。 Example sentencesExamples - Since the students and other volunteers accomplish most of the work, a sense of community pride is fostered.
- My beef is the lack of communication that often fosters false expectations in patients, who then blame the local doctors when things turn out worse than they hoped.
- The advertisements kids see around the holidays can help foster unrealistic expectations and lead to disappointment.
- Take a big does of Venus, goddess of beauty and love, and use her energy to foster a healthy self-esteem and noble sense of self-worth.
2Bring up (a child that is not one's own by birth). 收养,领养 Example sentencesExamples - But the baby boy isn't Karen's son, he is one of the children she and her husband are fostering.
- A daughter whose parents fostered more than 20 children in Bradford is seeking help to track them down as a 60th birthday present for her father.
- As someone who has successfully fostered a child who is now an adult, Pat Whelen said she would definitely recommend it.
- But if you only foster a child for part of the year - which you may, since your children take you on holiday and so forth - you get the pension credit back at the full rate for the time you don't work.
- Apart from their own seven children and step-children, he and his wife fostered a child from the age of four.
- At the moment we have a particular need for people from ethnic backgrounds and those prepared to foster children over 10.
- So in my middle 30s I fostered many children and am in the process of finalizing the adoption of two of them.
- Caroline gained her understanding of what was required when looking after children when she helped with her younger siblings, and watching her parents who fostered babies and young children.
- Finally, we built an extension for the kids and we have also fostered children over the years.
- My parents foster kids all the time and they wouldn't have minded at all.
- My parents fostered my mother's half-sister's daughter for a year.
- I know someone who fostered a child for over ten years.
- We grew up together while a close friend of my mother was fostering me.
- What is most noteworthy about them is that they are indistinguishable from those who fostered children in the context of informal circulation.
- Serena Allott talks to parents whose willingness to foster children ensures that the nest is never empty.
- This may be getting more involved than they contemplated when they agreed to foster children for the local authority.
- Porter reveals plan to foster children with special needs
- Each year a group of local people who have been to Russia and now have fostered children run a dinner dance in Tubbercurry.
- One of the raids was at the home of an elderly woman in a wheelchair and another was at the house of a pensioner who fostered children.
Synonyms bring up, rear, raise, care for, take care of, look after, nurture, provide for
adjective 1Denoting someone that has a specified family connection through fostering rather than birth. Example sentencesExamples - He had no parents except for the foster couple, who gave him up when his uncles would not raise their rate to keep him.
- Neither parent is functioning at anywhere near the level that the foster mother does.
- Maybe it was because Angela herself had been a foster child throughout her childhood, giving birth to Candace when she was just eighteen.
- I felt a bit like a foster child meeting new parents.
- In our family, we took a Cambodian refugee as a foster daughter.
- In the northern region of Ghana, almost every family has a foster child who is a relative.
- It's actually the reason I had to come to St. Clara's rather than stay with a foster family.
- Last year, a national conference of adoptive parents was organised to deliberate on challenges of adoptive parenthood, how to raise a foster child, and so on.
- To move him again would be to break his new attachments now formed to the foster family, particularly the foster mother who has become a primary figure to him.
- She had not been approved as a foster parent but rather was acting in a provisional capacity.
- She got certified to be a foster parent and has been really, really helpful.
- Unlike me, though, he'd found a home with a guardian that sounded like everything I'd ever dreamed a foster parent could be, plus a close extended family.
- In some cases, the IRS might, on one part of a tax return, view a child of a nonlegal parent as a foster child or dependent, but might not on another.
- Obviously she was sent away from her real parents and taken in by a foster family to be kept safe from something.
- I had a foster brother and sister, and my family was perfect.
- As a youth living in San Francisco, I was a foster kid from the time I was about nine years old until I was 18.
- Employees can take this leave upon the birth or adoption of a child or the placement of a foster child.
- What kind of checks and balances are in place right now when it comes to a foster family?
- He himself grew up without his biological parents, being raised by a foster family, and is understandably sceptical about the elevation of biology over nurture.
- The basic domestic unit is the nuclear family household, sometimes also including an aged parent or a foster child.
- 1.1 Involving or concerned with fostering a child.
Example sentencesExamples - Her favorite place was the foster care center, actually.
- Nine months since the group was formed, the women have reached 100 dogs, with nine more canines in the care of foster homes waiting for an owner.
- While waiting, they volunteered to be put on a foster care emergency list.
- This kind of care and nurturing is essential because these children are at greater risk of being neglected, getting lost in the foster care system and committing crimes.
- That would be great, having a health care system patterned after the foster care system.
- Nor do they want to antagonize foundation officials, who have placed a limit of 50 on the number of cats that can be in the foster care program at any one time.
- I've met a couple over the years at a foster care camp in Colorado.
- Volunteers post their offers of foster care for displaced pets.
- Studies conducted in prisons have shown that over 50 percent of the inmates had spent some point of their life in the foster care or in the juvenile system.
- Call your state department of foster care and lend a hand.
- The hardness came in handy surviving the foster care system.
- Many of these campers have been in and out of the foster care system and are not quick to trust or accept love from a person until that person proves to be dependable.
- Several months later, I was placed in a foster care home.
- The reunified and non-reunified children did not differ in terms of gender distribution and reasons for entry into the foster care system.
- But before I could muster up a tear, they told me they were applying for a foster care license.
- And as we know, there are more than 100,000 kids who are eligible for adoption in the foster care system.
- The $1.2 million grant program targets students who have left the foster care system at 18 without being adopted or returned home.
- The baby, which was barely a few weeks old when thrust into the care of a foster centre, has grown into a healthy and chubby five-year-old girl under the parental love of her adopted parents.
- But there was always something lacking in the impermanence of foster care, where the typical length of stay can be anywhere from a few months to a few years.
- It was amazing how the foster care system worked.
OriginOld English fōstrian ‘feed, nourish’, from fōster ‘food, nourishment’, of Germanic origin; related to food. The sense ‘bring up another's (originally also one's own) child’ dates from Middle English. See also foster-. |