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fostercare

fostercare is the alternative form of foster care.

Meaning of foster care

Noun

foster care (uncountable)

  1. A situation, in modern settings a formal arrangement, by which a child whose parents cannot care for them for the time being is cared for in a family setting (a foster family) without being adopted.

Questions about fostercare

What is fostercare the alternative form of?
Fostercare is the alternative form of foster care.

Words near fostercare in the dictionary

  1. foster-home
  2. foster-homes
  3. fosterable
  4. fosterage
  5. fosterages
  6. fostercare
  7. fostered
  8. fostered up
  9. fosterer
  10. fosterers
  11. fosteress

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fostercare (page history and authors); foster care (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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