Associations to the word «Adoption»
Noun
- Advocate
- Abuse
- Compliance
- Disruption
- Revision
- Unicode
- Usefulness
- Certificate
- Provision
- Cloning
- Lobbying
- Consensus
- Claudius
- Safeguard
- Donaldson
- Fertility
- Appropriation
- Incorporation
- Stakeholder
- Proponent
- Eligibility
- Refinement
- Jurisdiction
- Tariff
- Practice
- Ban
- Calendar
- Iconography
- Prohibition
- Persons
- Equality
- Mandate
- Protocol
- Methodology
- Farming
- Rules
- Reorganization
- Vendor
- Internet
- Awareness
- Same
- Consumer
- Procedure
- Preference
- Reunion
- Slavery
- Requirement
- Barrier
- Anthem
- Strategy
- Legitimacy
- Prevention
- Emblem
- Laws
- Imf
- Adulthood
- Exemption
- Integration
- Compromise
- Gaius
- Gay
- Nations
- Procurement
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
ADOPTION, noun. The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.
ADOPTION, noun. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
ADOPTION, noun. The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
ADOPTION, noun. (computing) Transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system.
Dictionary definition
ADOPTION, noun. The act of accepting with approval; favorable reception; "its adoption by society"; "the proposal found wide acceptance".
ADOPTION, noun. 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).
ADOPTION, noun. The appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source; "the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent".
Wise words
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