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Foster home

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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.

    "The group placed him in a foster home with a woman and two little girls, then advertised in the local paper."

  2. 2
    a household in which an orphaned or delinquent child is placed (usually by a social-service agency) wordnet

Etymology

From foster + home.

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