foster
foster
/ˈfɒstə(r)/
1 transitive foster something to encourage something to develop The club's aim is to foster better relations within the community.
The school has carefully fostered its progressive image.
Such organizations need to foster innovation.
Collocations
adverb
verb + foster
help (to)
be designed to
2 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.
We couldn't adopt a child, so we decided to foster.
Word Origin
Old 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.
育む、大事に育てていく
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