foster home
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- noun
- /ˈfɔstər hoʊm/
:
hogar de acogida
- After her parents could no longer care for her, she moved to a foster home where she felt safe and supported.
- foster home caregiver
- foster home residents
- therapeutic foster home
Funding is available when a child is placed in a foster home with strangers.
- Funding is available when a child is placed in a foster home with strangers.
- We'll, we'll give them foster homes with the known abusers.
- They were unwounded, unloved, orphanage, foster home, beaten, abused men and women and they come to prisons and they treat other people that way.
Examples
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Traditionally, social workers have played a key role in the supervision of foster homes.
Academic text (2008) -
As opposed to those in institutional settings, residents in foster homes can count on a family environment and human affection.
Academic text (2008) -
- Hi, I grew up in 12 different foster homes.
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We were in the same foster home together for a year.
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I live in a foster home.
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The kids were raised, by the way, in foster homes.
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From one foster home to another.
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I had been living in foster homes since I was about two.
Academic text (1991) -
Hundreds of children were taken from their birth families and placed in white foster homes.
Fiction book (2002) -
They put me in a foster home.
Synonyms
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Temporary care in another home for children who cannot live with their parents
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A family that cares for a child who is not their own for a time when the parents cannot
How Home-Like
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a home where a child is cared for by non-biological caregivers' is directly derivable from combining 'foster' (relating to nonbiological caregiving) with 'home' (a residence or place providing care). This adjectival + noun composition is transparent and common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Foster home combines foster, which means 'to help or raise', and home, a place you live, giving a clear image: a house where people look after a child who cannot live with their birth parents. That's why foster home means a home set up to care for such a child.