Adoption - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |əˈdɑːpʃn|  American pronunciation of the word adoption
Brit.  |əˈdɒpʃ(ə)n|  British pronunciation of the word adoption

noun

- the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception (syn: acceptance, acceptation, espousal)
its adoption by society
- a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)
- the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source (syn: borrowing)

Extra examples

They chose adoption because they couldn't have children of their own.

Our lawyer has handled many adoptions.

She decided to put the baby up for adoption.

...argued that the birth mother had not been informed of all of her options at the time of the adoption...

The baby was put up for adoption.

...for two years the couple was ensnarled in the red tape of an international adoption...

No reform had seemed more unlikely than the adoption of the ballot.

Word forms

noun
singular: adoption
plural: adoptions
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