/ʌdɑˈpʃʌnz/ - [udapshunz] -
We found 3 definitions of adoptions from 2 different sources.
NounPlural: adoptions |
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adoption - the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception; "its adoption by society"; "the proposal found wide acceptance" | ||
acceptance, acceptation, espousal | ||
approving, approval, blessing a message expressing a favorable opinion; "words of approval seldom passed his lips" | ||
adoption - 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) | ||
legal proceeding, proceeding, proceedings (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | ||
jurisprudence, law the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | ||
adoption - the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source; "the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent" | ||
borrowing | ||
appropriation a deliberate act of acquisition of something, often without the permission of the owner; "the necessary funds were obtained by the government's appropriation of the company's operating unit"; "a person's appropriation of property belonging to another is dishonest" | ||
naturalisation, naturalization changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology; "the naturalization in English of many Italian words" | ||
misappropriation wrongful borrowing; "his explanation was a misappropriation of sociological theory" |