transcription, транскрипция: [ ədɒpt ]
( adopts, adopting, adopted)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you adopt a new attitude, plan, or way of behaving, you begin to have it.
Parliament adopted a resolution calling for the complete withdrawal of troops...
VERB : V n
• adop‧tion
...the adoption of Japanese management practices by British manufacturing.
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2.
If you adopt someone else’s child, you take it into your own family and make it legally your son or daughter.
There are hundreds of people desperate to adopt a child...
The adopted child has the right to see his birth certificate.
VERB : V n , V-ed , also V
• adopt‧er
(adopters)
A social worker is appointed to interview the prospective adopters.
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• adop‧tion
(adoptions)
They gave their babies up for adoption...
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