foster

verb

/ˈfɒstə(r)/

/ˈfɑːstər/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they foster	/ˈfɒstə(r)/ /ˈfɑːstər/
he / she / it fosters	/ˈfɒstəz/ /ˈfɑːstərz/
past simple fostered	/ˈfɒstəd/ /ˈfɑːstərd/
past participle fostered	/ˈfɒstəd/ /ˈfɑːstərd/
-ing form fostering	/ˈfɒstərɪŋ/ /ˈfɑːstərɪŋ/

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[transitive] foster something to encourage something to develop促进；助长；培养；鼓励 synonym encourage, promote
- The club's aim is to foster better relations within the community.俱乐部的宗旨是促进团体内部的关系。
Extra Examples
- The school has carefully fostered its progressive image.该校精心打造了一个开明进步的形象。
- Such organizations need to foster innovation.这些组织需要促进创新。
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adverb
- carefully
- deliberately
verb + foster
- help (to)
- be designed to
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[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代养，抚育，照料（他人子女一段时间）
- They have fostered over 60 children during the past ten years.在过去十年间，他们抚育了 60 多个儿童。
- We couldn't adopt a child, so we decided to foster.我们不能领养孩子，所以决定代养一个。
Collocations Children
Children孩子Having a baby/child怀孕
- want a baby/a child/kids想要孩子
- start a family生孩子
- conceive/be expecting/be going to have a baby/child怀孕
- miss your period月经未按期来
- become/get/be/find out that you are pregnant怀孕了；发现怀孕了
- have a baby/a child/kids/a son/a daughter/twins/a family有一个宝宝／一个孩子／孩子／一个儿子／一个女儿／一对双胞胎／孩子
- have a normal/a difficult/an unwanted pregnancy; an easy/a difficult/a home birth正常／历经艰难／意外怀孕；顺产；难产；在家中分娩
- be in/go into/induce labour (especially US English) labor分娩；催产
- have/suffer/cause a miscarriage流产；引起流产
- give birth to a child/baby/daughter/son/twins生了一个孩子／一个宝宝／一个女儿／一个儿子／一对双胞胎
Parenting养育；抚养；教养
- bring up/ (especially North American English) raise a child/family抚养孩子
- care for/ (especially British English) look after a baby/child/kid照顾小孩
- change (British English) a nappy/(North American English) a diaper/a baby换尿布；给婴儿换尿布
- feed/breastfeed/bottle-feed a baby喂孩子；给孩子哺乳；用奶瓶喂养孩子
- be entitled to/go on maternity/paternity leave有权利休／正在休产假／陪产假
- go back/return to work after maternity leave产假后回到工作岗位
- need/find/get a babysitter/good quality affordable childcare需要／找到一个临时保姆／负担得起的高质量儿童保育
- balance/combine work and childcare/child-rearing/family life平衡／兼顾工作与照顾小孩／抚养小孩／家庭生活
- educate/teach/home-school a child/kid教育孩子；给孩子家庭教育
- punish/discipline/spoil a child/kid惩罚／管教／娇惯孩子
- adopt a baby/child/kid收养小孩
- offer a baby for/put a baby up for adoption把小孩给人收养
- (especially British English) foster a child/kid代养小孩
- be placed with/be raised by foster parents被交给寄养父母；由寄养父母抚养
compare adoptTopics Life stagesc1, Family and relationshipsc1

Word 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.

foster

adjective

/ˈfɒstə(r)/

/ˈfɑːstər/

[only before noun]

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used with some nouns in connection with the fostering of a child（与某些代养有关的名词连用）
- a foster mother/father/family代养母亲／父亲；代养的家庭
- foster parents代养父母
- a foster child代养的小孩
- a foster home寄养家庭
- The children were placed in foster care.孩子们被寄养。
Word 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.