0 present participle of foster --
1 to take care of a child, usually for a limited time, without being the child's legal parent: --
2 to encourage the development or growth of ideas or feelings: --
Till the end, imperial politics remained a slow process of fostering minimum common consensus prior to action.
They worried, too, about the potential for fostering labor unrest at a time when unions were growing in influence.
The overarching message emerging from the present investigation is that multi-child contexts can be positive learning environments in fostering early social-cognitive and language development.
Because this group is at risk for language problems, information about factors fostering language development is of particular interest.
And why shouldn't poetry be used as a means of fostering our growing awareness of the function of accents?
The efficacy of interventions for maltreated infants in fostering secure attachment.
The role of selective material incentives in fostering activist participation increased significantly over the course of the 1990s.
One of the most promising implications of these data was in fostering a preventive paradigm for symptom palliation.