foster care
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- noun
- /ˈfɔstər kɛr/
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acogida temporal
- Volunteers play a crucial role in providing foster care to rescued dogs and cats until they can be adopted.
But on the way out, we saw a dog on an iPad that was in foster care and we said we want to meet that dog.
- But on the way out, we saw a dog on an iPad that was in foster care and we said we want to meet that dog.
Examples
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Many animals in shelters find loving homes through foster care programs that prepare them for adoption.
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The operator said they will pick up pets and help find foster care, drop off pet food, etc.
Blog text (13) -
But on the way out, we saw a dog on an iPad that was in foster care and we said we want to meet that dog.
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If you know someone who needs to place their animal in temporary foster care, please email **28;3384;TOOLONG or call 347-581-2807.
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The local animal shelter depends on foster care families to take in pets waiting for their forever homes.
Antonyms
How Temporary
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound directly combines 'foster' (to raise or care for someone not biologically yours, often temporarily) with 'care' (supervision or provision of needs), so the sense of temporary supervised placement to look after and prepare an individual or animal is predictable from the parts. This compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows normal English noun formation, so a B1 learner who knows both words would likely infer the meaning.
Etymology
Foster care for animals comes from the same idea: a volunteer household gives a pet a temporary home, feeding and looking after it until it can find a family. That's why animal foster care means 'temporary supervised care to prepare animals for adoption'.