foster home

Noun

foster home (plural foster homes)

1. A household in which a child is placed for foster care.
   • Pete's foster home placements were never successful.2007, Geraldine M Humphrey, David G Zimpfer, Counselling for Grief and Bereavement
   • For a long time, as they shifted him from foster home to foster home, his records lost somewhere, he believed he was an orphan; but slowly it came to him that this was not true: he was a bastard.2014, Ernest Hebert, The Dogs of March
2. A household that volunteers to care for a domestic animal it does not own, especially by raising it from infancy until it is old enough to be adopted by a permanent owner.
   • The group placed him in a foster home with a woman and two little girls, then advertised in the local paper.2003, Marilyn Cochran Mosley, Dachshund Tails Rescued and Other Tales