adoption
//əˈdɑp.ʃən//
Forms
- Plural
- adoptions
Definitions
1.The act of adopting.
- The project also included seeking the adoption of homosexuals as prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International, which would mean simply adding 'sexual orientation' to Article 1A of the Amnesty International mandate.
2.The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if they were one's own child.
- Another Chinese boy was put up for adoption.
- A Chinese baby girl was given away for adoption.
3.An admission to an institution, for example a hospital, clinic, mental asylum.
4.The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance.
- Our company is considering the adoption of a four-day week.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3645
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
Borrowed from French adoption, from Latin adoptio, allied to adoptare (“to adopt”).
Equivalent to adopt + -ion.