Usually means: Encourages or promotes development or growth.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. fosters: Merriam-Webster
  2. fosters: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Fosters, fosters: Vocabulary.com
  4. Foster's, Fosters, Fosters, fosters: Wordnik
  5. fosters: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. fosters: Wiktionary
  7. fosters: Dictionary.com
  8. fosters: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Foster's, Fosters, The Fosters (American TV series), The Fosters (British TV series), The Fosters (U.S. TV series), The Fosters (season The+Fosters+++(season+++1)), The Fosters (season 2), The Fosters (season 3), The Fosters (season 4), The Fosters (season 5), The Fosters: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. fosters: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. fosters: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. fosters: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fosters: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fosters: Medical dictionary

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  1. Foster's, the fosters: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Foster)

adjective:  Providing parental care to children not related to oneself.
adjective:  Receiving such care.
adjective:  Related by such care.
noun:  (countable, informal) A foster parent.
noun:  (uncountable) The care given to another; guardianship.
verb:  (transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
verb:  (transitive) To promote the development of something; to cultivate and grow a thing.
verb:  (transitive) To nurse or cherish something.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To be nurtured or trained up together.
noun:  (obsolete) A forester.
noun:  An English surname originating as an occupation, variant of Forster
noun:  A male given name transferred from the surname.
noun:  A placename
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A former settlement in San Diego County, California.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Warren County, Indiana.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Bracken County, Kentucky.
noun:  A township and unincorporated community therein, in Big Stone County, Minnesota.
noun:  A village in Bates County, Missouri; named for Ohio governor Charles Foster.
noun:  A village in Pierce County, Nebraska; named for George Foster, original owner of town's site.
noun:  A town in Garvin County, Oklahoma.
noun:  An unincorporated community partly in Sweet Home, Linn County, Oregon.
noun:  A town in Providence County, Rhode Island; named for Rhode Island statesman Theodore Foster.
noun:  A town in Clark County, Wisconsin.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Clear Creek, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A village in the town of Brome Lake, Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality, southern Quebec, Canada.
noun:  A town in South Gippsland Shire, south-east Victoria, Australia.
noun:  Ellipsis of Foster County. [One of 53 counties in North Dakota, United States. County seat: Carrington.]
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