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Definition adopt

Etymology

From Middle French adopter, from Latin adoptare; ad +‎ optare (“to choose, desire”).

Verb

adopt (third-person singular simple present adopts, present participle adopting, simple past and past participle adopted)

1. (transitive) To take by choice into relationship (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.)
   1. (transitive) To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
   2. (transitive) To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
   3. (transitive) To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
2. (transitive) To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.
3. (transitive) To select and take or approve.

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