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foster English

Meaning foster meaning

What does foster mean?
Definitions in simple English

foster Verb

— When you foster something, you do cultivate and grow it. In this school, they foster students with a talent in music.

foster

— verb promote the growth of Foster our children's well-being and education — adjective (= surrogate) providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties foster parent foster child foster home surrogate father — verb bring up under fosterage; of children — verb (= nurture) help develop, help grow nurture his talents

Foster

— noun United States songwriter whose songs embody the sentiment of the South before the American Civil War (1826-1864)

Synonyms foster synonyms

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foster English » English

nurture nourish bring up encourage rear raise cherish promote cultivate support further adopt sustain provide for nurse feed look after care for advance take care of surrogate prop up maintain increase educate develop breed attend adoptive adopted urge train tend teach suckle subserve strengthen step- service serve reward redound provide patronize mind instill improve help forward form

Foster English » English

Stephen Foster Stephen Collins Foster

Topics foster topics

What do people use foster to talk about?
Person Life Stage of life Child

Rear a child
Social behavior Relationships Kinship

Adopt

Conjugation foster conjugation

How do you conjugate foster?

foster · verb

Examples foster examples

How do I use foster in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Florence Foster Jenkins was one of the greatest sopranos of the world.
Beatings foster prudence.
He was visiting his foster mother.
They did everything they could to foster good relations.
Would banning English in Parliament foster or damage India's democracy?
Tom grew up in foster care.
Tom was raised by foster parents.
This song was written by Foster.
Jimmy is my foster child.
She is my foster daughter.
Tom is our foster son.

Movie subtitles

AJ Foster disappeared into thin air.
It's about AJ Foster.
AJ Foster, is that the accountant that was supposed to testify against Gowen, but then disappeared?
Mr. Foster!
I've never heard of any AJ Foster.
You have no idea who AJ Foster is? I haven't the faintest clue.
AJ Foster's a woman, not a man.
I assure you, Miss Foster, you have nothing to worry about.
How did Avery find out about AJ Foster?
At the far end of the table were Sir Arne's niece, Berghild, and her foster sister Elsalill, an orphan taken in by the vicar's household.
The last to be slain was my foster sister.
She thought she saw her dead foster sister standing before her.
The next day, the dream lingered and would not fade and she was irresistibly drawn to the places her foster sister had taken her in the dream.
At the far end of the table were Sir Arne's niece, Berghild, and her foster sister Elsalill, an orphan taken in by the vicar's household. Elsalill. Mary Johnson Berghild.
Not long afterwards, Elsalill had a peculiar dream. She thought she saw her dead foster sister standing before her.
While it is regrettable, we must remember that the treaty by which your foster father received annually a sum of money from my government for his extraordinary services ceased automatically to exist on the occasion of his death.
I do blame you - to foster this, to encourage it behind my back, to bring the daughter of my worst enemy under my own roof.
I'm gonna sing you a song that I wrote myself. with the aid of Stephen Foster.
Charles Foster Kane.
It was her wish that I take charge of this boy, Charles Foster Kane.
Chief, is it not, that on this occasion, Charles Foster Kane personally attacked you after striking you in the stomach with a sled?
Shameful, ignominious. Defeat that set back for 20 years the cause of reform in the U. S forever canceled political chances for Charles Foster Kane.
Then last week, as it must to all men death came to Charles Foster Kane.
All we saw on that screen was that Charles Foster Kane is dead.
Everything else, the principal, as well as all monies earned is to be administered by the bank in trust for your son, Charles Foster Kane until he reaches his 25th birthday, at which time he is to come into complete possession.
Miss Townsend, this is Mr. Charles Foster Kane.
And so I'm taking Miss Okoma as my foster daughter.
John Halliday, who cried when Mrs. Foster died in childbirth?
Good evening Holgrave, you know Deacon Foster.
Deacon Foster called earlier this morning sir, before you had awakened.
Good morning Mrs Foster, is the Deacon at home?
My firm had been appointed trustee by Mrs. Kane for a large fortune she recently acquired. It was her wish that I take charge of this boy, Charles Foster Kane.
Mr. Charles Foster Kane, in every essence of his social beliefs and by the dangerous manner he has persistently attacked American traditions of private property initiative and opportunity for advancement is, in fact, nothing more or less than a communist.
As Charles Foster Kane who owns 82,364 shares of Public Transit Preferred. See, I do have a general idea of my holdings. I sympathize with you.

News and current affairs

WASHINGTON, DC - As the 2015 target date for the Millennium Development Goals approaches, the United Nations is intensifying its efforts to foster debate about what comes next for promotion of development worldwide.
Perhaps we don't develop leaders so much as foster the conditions that bring out leadership.
Development as now practiced often fails because it does not build on a country's unique strengths, respect its social traditions, or foster the autonomy necessary to develop indigenous leaders and enterprises.
The time has come for the US, China, India, and other major economies to declare how they will foster their own transition to a low-carbon economy.
In a world where anti-Semitism and racism fester, where prejudice on national, religious, colored-based, or ethnic grounds foster discrimination, that is the view that best nurtures the rights of all.
Countries need strategies to foster education and innovation just as they need strategies to preserve macroeconomic stability and a healthy business environment.
Ibrahim wants to stamp out corruption, to see the rule of law applied everywhere, to foster policy environments that encourage businesses to start up and thrive, and to strengthen the role of women.
Russia's gradual inclusion in the G-8 was supposed to nurture the growth of democracy, foster creation of a free-market economy, and encourage constructive behavior in international relations.
Trade sanctions foster smuggling and smugglers are usually in cahoots with authorities, so that sanctions strengthen the governments they are supposed to topple.
Crisis prevention is much to be preferred to intervention; the best way to prevent crises is to foster the development of open societies.
I advocate a concerted effort by developed democracies to foster the development of democracy in less developed parts of the world.
By contrast, economic aid can foster democratic development; it can also be used as leverage against recalcitrant governments.
China's trading partners and foreign NGO's can provide needed assistance to China by supporting programs that foster improvements in Chinese legality.
Creating a rule of law and institutions for political participation has lagged behind economic growth, and growing inequality, massive internal migration, an inadequate social safety net, and corruption could foster political instability.
Over time, the ICC's example should foster more effective national and regional prosecutions of serious crimes such as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.
It could also help to foster consensus among the major coal-based economies, including China and India.
It must be admitted, of course, that our access to real-life terrorists is limited, and we still have much to learn about the kind of environments that foster terroristic behavior.
But, in order to foster such a partnership, they must first alter their negative perceptions of each other.
The Internet can foster more demagoguery than sober analysis.
Will a world economy in which developing countries have substantially greater weight foster the kind of global governance that sustains a hospitable economic environment?
Such an initiative would not only foster growth, but would also lower current-account deficits (because expensive fossil-energy imports could be reduced).
Meanwhile, differences over Taiwan also foster tensions periodically, such as when former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui sought to visit Japan for medical treatment.
When protecting capital is elevated to a moral principle, or justified as a component of human rights in a region resentful over its sense of economic subjugation, the effect is to foster disillusion with human rights.
At present, industry is the primary source of tax revenue for the government, particularly at the local level, giving the state too little incentive to foster a service economy.
But the greatest leverage will undoubtedly come from policies that foster ongoing and rapid migration from the countryside to the cities.
But, in order to seize global opportunities today, we need to emphasize a new dimension: the ability to create a shared set of values and foster a culture that embraces those beliefs.
This attitude goes a long way toward developing trust among team members and helps foster strong commitment to a common vision.
The key here, as in Japan, is to foster greater competition in services.
Europe's financial industry wants a cost-effective, transparent, and competitively neutral supervisory framework that will foster market integration, create greater financial stability, and provide for crisis management.

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