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Foster child

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Noun
  1. 1
    A child in foster care; a child in one's foster care, in relation to oneself.

    "Another hopeful broad-gauge prospect was the Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway. It was fostered by the Great Western but the authority of the parent over its foster-child rapidly disappeared."

  2. 2
    a child who is raised by foster parents wordnet

Etymology

Inherited from Old English fōstorċild.

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