foster
/ˈfɒstə(r)/verb
उच्चारण फ़ॉस्टर
बढ़ावा देना, पोषण करना, प्रोत्साहित करना
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[T] ~ sth formal
to encourage something to develop
बढ़ावा देना, पोषण करना, प्रोत्साहित करना
- The club fosters a love of reading among village children.
- Exchange programmes foster friendship between countries.
- Good teachers foster curiosity in their students.
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- The festival fosters a sense of community in the neighbourhood.
- Trade fosters understanding between nations.
Synonyms encourage promote nurture
Opposite hinder suppress discourage
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[I, T] ~ (sb)
to take care of a child in your own home for a period of time without becoming the child's legal parent
(बच्चे को) पालन-पोषण के लिए अपने घर रखना (कानूनी रूप से गोद लिए बिना)
- The couple have fostered twelve children over the years.
- Many families foster a child until a permanent home is found.
- Radhika's aunt fosters children whose parents cannot look after them.
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- They fostered the boy for two years before he returned home.
- Would you consider fostering a child from the shelter?
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used to describe a family that fosters a child, or a child who is fostered
पालक (माता-पिता), पाला गया (बच्चा)
- foster parents
- a foster child
- a foster home
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- The foster mother treated him as her own son.
- She grew up in a foster family in Pune.
- The foster parents attended every school event.
≈Synonyms and antonyms
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foster or adopt?
To foster a child is to care for it in your home for a time while it legally remains somebody else's; to adopt a child is to become its legal parent permanently. Foster parents are not adoptive parents.
बच्चे को foster करना उसे कुछ समय अपने घर में पालना है जबकि कानूनी रूप से वह किसी और का रहता है; adopt करना स्थायी रूप से उसका कानूनी माता-पिता बनना है। Foster parents, adoptive parents नहीं हैं।
The foster/adopt distinction is a regular item.
Foster और adopt का अंतर अक्सर पूछा जाता है।
✓In the exam
One-word substitution
To bring up a child that is not your own is to foster it; the parents are foster parents (foster mother, foster father, foster brother).
'जो बच्चा अपना न हो उसे पालना' foster करना है; माता-पिता foster parents हैं (foster mother, foster father, foster brother)।