Word: Adoption
How to pronounce: ədɒpʃn
Noun
Definitions:
1. The action or fact of legally taking another's child and bringing it up as one's own, or the fact of being adopted.
Example sentences: "She placed a child for adoption when she was a teenager"
2. The action or fact of choosing to take up, follow, or use something.
Synonyms:
acceptance
enactment
acceptation
introduction
implementation
approval
affirmation
borrowing
approving
Antonyms:
removal
elimination
release
Derivations:
adopting
adopted
adoptive
adopt
adopter
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Adoption in Other Languages...
Spanish: Aprobación
German: Annahme
French: Adoption
Italian: Adozione
Turkish: Benimseme
