Usually means: Temporary care for children, adolescents.
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  1. foster home: Merriam-Webster
  2. foster home: Collins English Dictionary
  3. foster home: Vocabulary.com
  4. foster home: Wiktionary
  5. foster home: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. foster home: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. foster home: Dictionary.com
  8. Foster home: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. foster home: Rhymezone
  10. foster home: FreeDictionary.org
  11. foster home: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. foster home: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. foster home: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. foster home: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foster home: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (foster home)

noun:  A household in which a child or animal is raised by someone other than their natural or adoptive parent or owner (respectively), especially, in the case of a child, when that caregiver is otherwise unrelated to the child.

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