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fosterage

 
Noun fosterage has 2 senses
  1. fostering, fosterage - encouragement; aiding the development of something
    --1 is a kind of encouragement
    Derived form: verb foster1
  2. breeding, bringing up, fostering, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing - raising someone to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important"
    --2 is a kind of socialization, socialisation, acculturation, enculturation
    Derived form: verb foster3
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