fosterage

Noun

 * 1) The act of fostering another's child as if it were one's own.
 * 2) The act of caring for another human being or animal.
 * 3) * 1660, Robert May, , London: Obadiah Blagrave, 5th edition, 1685,
 * I do acknowledg my self not to be a little beholding to the Italian and Spanish Treatises; though without my fosterage, and bringing up under the Generosities and Bounties of my Noble Patrons and Masters, I could never have arrived to this Experience.
 * 1) The condition of being the foster child.
 * 2) The act of promoting or encouraging something.
 * 3) * 1945, United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Insuring Proper Land Use, Columbia Basin Joint Investigations, Problem 3, Chapter 3, p. 13,
 * Markets are not developed overnight and basic to the success of any marketing program is fosterage of a land use program that assures a permanent agriculture.
 * 1) The condition of being the foster child.
 * 2) The act of promoting or encouraging something.
 * 3) * 1945, United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Insuring Proper Land Use, Columbia Basin Joint Investigations, Problem 3, Chapter 3, p. 13,
 * Markets are not developed overnight and basic to the success of any marketing program is fosterage of a land use program that assures a permanent agriculture.
 * 1) * 1945, United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Insuring Proper Land Use, Columbia Basin Joint Investigations, Problem 3, Chapter 3, p. 13,
 * Markets are not developed overnight and basic to the success of any marketing program is fosterage of a land use program that assures a permanent agriculture.
 * Markets are not developed overnight and basic to the success of any marketing program is fosterage of a land use program that assures a permanent agriculture.

Translations

 * Faroese: fostur
 * Irish: daltachas, altram, altramas, altramú
 * Old Irish: daltus, daltacht
 * Manx: doltaghys
 * Romanian: adoptivitate, creșterea unui copil adoptiv,
 * Scottish Gaelic: daltachd


 * French: fosterage
 * Irish: daltachas
 * Old Irish: daltus