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单词 foster home
释义

foster home

noun

plural foster homes
: a home or homelike setting where a person or animal is placed for temporary care: such as
a
: a home in which a child receives care from a foster parent
The child, her adopted parents later learned, had been abandoned by her single mother and sent through a series of foster homes Deborah Bloom
Treehouse is a planned intergenerational community, created in the hope that a close-knit support network can prevent children from bouncing from one foster home to another and give them tools to succeed. Pam Belluck
b
: a household or similar setting providing temporary care to an animal (such as one that is injured or awaiting adoption)
She had provided a foster home to more than a dozen of the program's birds before and had found the work highly rewarding. Dugan Arnett
The cat project currently has 150 cats in foster homes, aside from the many cats in the shelter itself. Patricia Camerota

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Police had been responding to a 911 call made from Bryant’s foster home about a group of girls threatening to stab members of the household when the incident unfolded. Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2022 Cynthia Abcug, 53, denied she was involved in planning a raid on the foster home where her then 7-year-old son lived in the fall of 2019. Colleen Slevin, ajc, 26 Aug. 2022 Baywatch is living in a foster home and will be available on Saturdays, visit Friends for Life Animal Rescue or email them at FFLdogs@azfriends.org. The Republic, The Arizona Republic, 13 Aug. 2022 The plaintiffs were placed in a foster home where they were victimized for another three years, according to the lawsuit which names Riverside County, ChildNet Youth and Family Services and the Foster Family Network as defendants. Diana Dasrath, NBC News, 20 July 2022 Harmony was legally removed from her mother's care and placed in a foster home shortly after the reports of neglect, the report said. Melissa Alonso And Christina Maxouris, CNN, 5 May 2022 The six children who were in that foster home, and have since been removed, filed two separate lawsuits last week against a foster care service and California's Riverside County. Jean Casarez, CNN, 27 July 2022 Yet, Jordan and five of her siblings say their nightmare continued when they were placed in an abusive foster home. Melody Chiu, PEOPLE.com, 27 July 2022 Officials kept the siblings in the foster home for three years despite the siblings having alerted them to the abuse, according to the complaint. Christina Ng, ABC News, 20 July 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1886, in the meaning defined above

Legal Definition

foster home

noun

: a household in which care is provided to a child who has been orphaned or removed from the home of his or her natural parents (as for reasons of abuse, neglect, or delinquency)
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