Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
foster . - noun raising someone to be an accepted member of the community.
- noun encouragement; aiding the development of something
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun encouragement; aiding the development of something
- noun helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
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Examples
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Short term fostering meets the needs of children in all types of situations ranging from the sudden illness or incapacity of a parent through to the need to remove of a child following child protection concerns.
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But just as important, how can their users make sure that those facilities will live up to their potential in fostering a positive image?
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If you are interested in fostering personal responsibility, privatization is a good way to do it.
Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Claudia believes in fostering the life of the mind by feeding children a rich diet of history, mythology, and great books. … the lives of others, lives from which we can learn how to be courageous, thoughtful, empathic, passionate, responsible, heroic, dignified.
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Now, one word, for those who are actually and sincerely interested in fostering a unitary-state by supporting “devolution” as a means to achieve sustainable peace, please avoid thinking in terms of “devolution” and instead please try to think in terms of “sharing of powers”, rights, duties and responsibilities that cannot be taken back at any time by any government or individual by any method.
Global Voices in English » Sri Lanka: Abuse, Disbelief And Bitterness Persist
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I look forward to working with you in fostering more community of end users and figuring out how all these fun technology tools can be used by “real people”.
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Congress has an interest in fostering and promoting interstate commerce and web sites that allow comments certainly account for more than no contribution to interstate commerce.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Second Circuit Due Process Victory for Connecticut Carry Permit Holders
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Yet often there is confusion about what is involved in fostering …
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Central Command Gen. James Mattis and Afghanistan commander Gen. David Petraeus — understands the importance of professionalism and trust in fostering healthy civil-military relations.
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By the way, on a relatively minor point: the FTC may or may not have been a good idea, but the Clayton Act turned out to be very important in fostering effective enforcement of our competition laws, while at the same time specifically exempting labor unions.
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