- Providing parental care and nurture to children not related through legal or blood ties: foster parents; foster grandparents; a foster home. 2. Receiving parental care and nurture from those not related to one through legal or blood ties: foster children.
[transitive, intransitive] foster (somebody) (especially British English) to take another person’s child into your home for a period of time, without becoming his or her legal parents. They have fostered over 60 children during the past ten years. We couldn't adopt a child, so we decided to foster.
A simple "thank you" lets the senders know that their email has arrived safely, that it has not been lost among what could be 50 other emails that have arrived in your email inbox that day.
On behalf of the entire company, I would like to thank you for all your work. In accepting this award, I would like to thank the producer, the director, the scriptwriter and, lastly, the film crew.
You use thank you or, in more informal English, thanks to politely acknowledge what someone has said to you, especially when they have answered your question or said something nice to you.
That his Majesty has good subjects in England, my Lord Duke, he is bound to thank God and the laws —that he has subjects in Scotland, I think he may thank God and the sword.
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