Usually means: Encourages growth and development carefully.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. nurtures: Merriam-Webster
  2. nurtures: Collins English Dictionary
  3. nurtures: Vocabulary.com
  4. Nurtures, nurtures: Wordnik
  5. nurtures: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. nurtures: Wiktionary
  7. nurtures: Dictionary.com
  8. nurtures: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. nurtures: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nurtures: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nurtures: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nurtures: Medical dictionary

(Note: See nurture as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (nurture)

noun:  The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care
noun:  That which nourishes; food; diet.
noun:  The environmental influences that contribute to a person’s development (as opposed to "nature").
noun:  The act or process of encouraging the growth or development of something.
verb:  To nourish or nurse.
verb:  (figuratively, by extension) To encourage, especially the growth or development of something.
▸ Also see nurture


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