adopt
pronunciation
How to pronounce adopt in British English:
UK [əˈdɒpt]
How to pronounce adopt in American English:
US [ əˈdɑːpt]
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- Verb:
- choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
- take up and practice as one's own
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
- take into one's family
- put into dramatic form
- take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
Word Origin
- adopt
- adopt: see opinion
- adopt (v.)
- c. 1500, a back-formation from adoption or else from Middle French adopter or directly from Latin adoptare "take by choice, choose for oneself, select, choose" (especially a child). Originally in English also of friends, fathers, citizens, etc. Sense of "to legally take as one's own child" and that of "to embrace, espouse" a practice, method, etc. are from c. 1600. Related: Adopted; adopting.
Example
- 1. Why couldn 't broadmoor adopt some of his ideas ?
- 2. Different schools adopt different strategies to deal with plagiarism .
- 3. Above all , adopt clear policies and act decisively .
- 4. Others let someone adopt the child .
- 5. When they are , the free market will adopt them naturally .