adoption
pronunciation
How to pronounce adoption in British English:
UK [əˈdɒpʃn]
How to pronounce adoption in American English:
US [əˈdɑːpʃn]
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- Noun:
- the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception
- 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
Word Origin
- adoption (n.)
- mid-14c., from Old French adopcion or directly from Latin adoptionem (nominative adoptio), noun of action from past participle stem of adoptare "chose for oneself, take by choice, select, adopt," especially "to take into a family, adopt as a child," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + optare "choose, wish, desire" (see option (n.)).
Example
- 1. Now the parents have separated and charlotte is up for adoption .
- 2. Widespread adoption of the new approach may however be difficult .
- 3. The erp system adoption is the systematical engineering process which needs time to realize benefits step by step .
- 4. But an irish yes vote in a recent referendum means that his signature is last obstacle to adoption of the treaty .
- 5. Adoption cases settled through mediation .