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1. Legally take (another's child) and bring it up as one's own.
No one would adopt a seventeen-year-old orphan.
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2. Choose to take up, follow, or use.
this approach has been adopted by many big banks
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3. Choose and move to (a country or city) as one's permanent place of residence.
They can trace back their ancestors, who came to India and adopted this country as their own and identify with them.
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4. Take on or assume (an attitude or position)
States have adopted different positions on this.
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5. Choose (someone) as a candidate for office.
He was officially adopted as a prospective candidate at a party meeting on Monday, April 18, 1955.
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6. Formally approve or accept (a report or suggestion)
the committee voted 5–1 to adopt the proposal
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7. (of a local authority) accept responsibility for the maintenance of (a road).
The roads were adopted by the county council in 1964, but she stated that she did not believe the council had carried out its responsibilities of maintaining the roads and paths.
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1. Late 15th century via French from Latin adoptare, from ad- ‘to’ + optare ‘choose’.
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