Uttal
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Definitioner
Verb
- (transitive, with relationship specified) To take by choice into relationship, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.
- (transitive, with relationship implied by context) To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
- (transitive, with relationship implied by context) To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
- (transitive, with relationship implied by context) To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
- (transitive) To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
- (transitive) To select and take or approve.
Exempel
- A friend of mine recently adopted a Chinese baby girl found on the streets of Beijing.
- We're going to adopt a Dalmatian.
- This supermarket chain adopts several families every Yuletide, providing them with money and groceries for the holidays.
- [S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
- to adopt the view or policy of another
- These resolutions were adopted.
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