Definition of adopt in English:

adopt

verb əˈdɒptəˈdɑpt

[with object]

1Legally take (another's child) and bring it up as one's own.
there are many people eager to adopt a baby
Example sentencesExamples
- From what I have gathered they are going to adopt an orphan and have told many people.
- Of this number, half of the families adopt healthy infants.
- But just because you can legally adopt a child does not necessarily mean it is in the best interests of that child to be adopted by you.
- If a person legally adopts a child there can be several complications.
- The children were adopted from two orphanages in Hunan province.
- We can legally marry and adopt children in every jurisdiction.
- ‘Each household in a functioning community can adopt orphans and others who have no homes anymore,’ he said.
- However, he has no living relatives that will adopt the orphan.
- Such couples may have to wait a number of years before they can legally adopt a child.
- In the USA last year 46,000 foster care children were adopted - an increase of 65 per cent on the figure in 1996.
- Foundlings were adopted by neighbors, and accorded privileged status in the community, by way of compensating them for the loss of their parents.
- The couple adopted two children, a boy and a girl.
- There are really no rules of thumb, but older couples are less likely to adopt infants and many younger couples prefer babies in order to fit in with peer groups.
- About 4,939 Russian children are legally adopted by foreigners each year, but 184,000 still languish in orphanages.
- Clare and Dan adopted three youngsters, aged three, four and seven.
- No one would adopt a seventeen-year-old orphan.
- Legally, they could then adopt children in Florida.
- Some time before I got to know her, Mona adopted a baby girl named Ayesha.
- When you adopt a child, he or she is legally yours; you have all the rights and responsibilities that a birth parent has.
- We have laws in this country to decide whether a couple are legally fit to adopt a child.
2Choose to take up or follow (an idea, method, or course of action)
this approach has been adopted by many big banks
Example sentencesExamples
- The idea is that Keynes during his career adopted a particular method of investigation based on the close connection between theory and practice.
- At the birth of the Second Republic, 90% of Italians voted to adopt a first-past-the-post method.
- The women claim they have adopted a simple method to ensure men don't drink: they take their evening meals by 6 pm.
- I agree that this was an option and not obligatory, but most consulting engineers chose to adopt this method, as it satisfied the needs for the brief and avoided the need for dimensioning the drawings.
- At the same time, some readers may find both essays comforting; after all, both authors have elected to adopt new methods in their research programs.
- It means adopting different methods for different groups.
- Until that time, sauces followed the Roman method adopted by Taillevent: where thick pieces of stale bread were soaked in liquid and then strained through cloth.
- It is important to keep in mind that whatever method is adopted for quitting smoking, the most important factors are conviction and willpower.
- People who go through this dilemma expect their organisations to motivate them to work by adopting methods such as get-togethers, meditation and yoga programmes.
- For this final experiment, we are adopting a new method.
- Successive generations, of course, have adopted American ways for dealing with the medical community.
- A few astrologers have chosen to adopt a third method of division.
- He adopted the method of the ‘snapshot,’ of the intimate and the incidental, as a ‘style.’
- Though there was a lot of criticism from various quarters at that time, today the present coaches are adopting the method, which was introduced by Balkishen Singh.
- Many complain about the way in which editing techniques have, in the hope of creating excitement, adopted the methods used in music videos.
- The Catholic and Protestant Churches adopted different methods.
- By adopting the method, Mr. Haridas is able to even defeat a computer in calculations.
- Only a few firms succeeded in not only getting bigger, but also in adopting the American methods of managerial organization adequate to their new size.
- The latest developments have also inspired some political analysts to urge the state to adopt a different method of dealing with the group.
- Some of the Chinese have adopted the western method of toasting, but where this is the case, everyone must touch everyone else's glass during the toasting and before drinking.
Synonyms
embrace, take on, acquire, affect, espouse, assume, appropriate, arrogate
1. 2.1 Choose and move to (a country or city) as one's permanent place of residence.
  Example sentencesExamples
  They can trace back their ancestors, who came to India and adopted this country as their own and identify with them.
  From humble beginnings in the Welsh valleys he became a national celebrity, who adopted this city as his home and became one of Bradford's leading and best-loved citizens.
  Why shouldn't we open our highest office to those who have adopted this country as their own and have proved their patriotism through decades of devoted citizenship?
  I've adopted this country and feel a certain amount of responsibility towards it.
3Take on or assume (an attitude or position)
he adopted a patronizing tone
Example sentencesExamples
- Both government and opposition have been adopting positions which they will repeat over and over again during the period of this parliament.
- They had to be flexible, and adopt different positions to accommodate ever changing circumstances.
- To be fair, I think this is the fault of both sides, and leaders on both ends need to make the conscious decision to cooperate issue by issue instead of adopting a polarized position by default.
- Like much of continental philosophy, feminist continental philosophy adopts a critical position with regard to reason.
- Dunbar adopts an intriguing position on the origin of language, seeing it as taking over many of the social functions of physical contact and grooming that for many monkey species take up a considerable part of each day.
- Shortly after that the pilot told us it was a full emergency landing and we had to adopt the brace position.
- As both sides adopted firm positions yesterday, it was confirmed that a strike at the company's pig farms will begin on Monday the day before the major work stoppage.
- No matter what the Court may announce on Monday, it will not be adopting this extreme position.
- Assuming an effective role as mediator in the region, the group might be able to adopt a position where it could exert a highly positive influence over the future of the region for a long time to come.
- If both parties were to adopt extreme positions, no bills at all could be passed.
- Flight crew triggered a full emergency, donning smoke hoods and telling passengers to adopt brace positions before the plane landed safely 12 minutes later at 8.47 am.
- I was adopting a position of enlightened intellectual who was going to teach my Midwestern students about the realities and inequalities of their nation.
- States have adopted different positions on this.
- The government adopted the position that the reactors should be decommissioned in 2006, but insisted on a safety inspection.
- This time around, the union says it consulted its members widely before adopting a negotiating position, which now stresses cultural and family issues.
- Not all writers adopting a constructionist position are similarly prepared to acknowledge the existence or at least importance of an objective reality.
- The political parties are also jostling with each other for favour with the voters by adopting hard-line positions.
- One cannot be sure what it was about the appearance or the behaviour of this insect that led the Greeks to call it, too, mantis; perhaps its habit of adopting a motionless position as if transfixed.
- The football associations of Wales and Northern Ireland have adopted a similar position.
- She is an antireductionist - a position sometimes adopted by those who dislike what they perceive to be the direction of modern genetics.
1. 3.1British Choose (someone) as a candidate for office.
  she was recently adopted as Labour candidate for the constituency
  Example sentencesExamples
  Livingstone has said that if he is adopted as party candidate, he will nominate Gavron as his running mate for deputy.
  He was officially adopted as a prospective candidate at a party meeting on Monday, April 18, 1955.
  In 1921 he was adopted as a Labour candidate for Battersea North.
  Nationalist stalwarts foregather in Elgin tonight to adopt their candidate for the forthcoming Moray by-election, now declared for April 27.
  In 1926, after returning to England from living in the United States, she was adopted as a Conservative candidate in the East End of London.
  After coming joint top of the civil service exam, he joined the sector in 1946, only to resign the following year when he was adopted as the Parliamentary candidate for Bexley.
  He was adopted as a parliamentary candidate in 1976 and within two years was on a key Scottish Labour Party committee.
  The Orkney Conservative Party are due to adopt Christopher Zawadski as their prospective parliamentary candidate to stand in the next election.
  In 1962, in Sir David's final year at university, he was adopted as prospective parliamentary candidate for the Pentlands.
  The local Tory party in Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross was due yesterday to take a decision on whether to adopt him as a candidate.
  A British senior civil servant, in contrast, is required to resign his post once he is adopted as a prospective political candidate, and very few have followed this course.
  Synonyms
  choose, select, pick, pick out, vote for, elect, settle on, decide on, single out, plump for, opt for, name, nominate, designate, appoint
2. 3.2 Formally approve or accept (a report or suggestion)
  the committee voted 5–1 to adopt the proposal
  Example sentencesExamples
  Only 15 of the 55 of the respondents reported having a formally adopted a written programmatic assessment plan.
  The Council approved the insertion of some minor clarifications in language and then adopted the amended report as Association policy.
  On the face of it, if the recommendations made by this report were adopted as Government policy, there would be clear benefits for infrequent road users.
  More detailed labelling on products for consumers would also result if the report is adopted by the minister.
  After that, the city council will decide which suggestions will be formally adopted.
  He said the report was not adopted unanimously.
  The committee unanimously voted to adopt the report and take the first steps towards implementing some of the suggestions.
  The councillors concluded by adopting the report and agreed to promote the idea that every house in the town should have smoke alarms installed.
  If the report is widely adopted by the funders and builders of dams, it will pave the way for a new era of protecting rivers and the communities that depend upon them.
  It was agreed to adopt the report outlining the proposals as the basis for consultation with interested parties.
  But what would he do if the report is not adopted?
  Those measures are expected to be formally adopted by the approvals social services committee next Tuesday.
  The report was adopted at the top security meeting of ministers in charge of defense and foreign affairs.
  While the report was adopted unanimously, two members assented with qualifications.
  It is unusual for a Japanese court to adopt reports by foreign investigative authorities as evidence.
  The report was yesterday adopted by all senators with the Opposition fully in support of its contents and the eventual conclusion.
  The final report was adopted by the plenary session in February 1987.
  The recommendations of the Harvard report were gratefully adopted by many authorities who were faced with these problems.
  It is all the more important, therefore, that ministers adopt the report's recommendations.
  His report was adopted by the British government and the two colonies were united in 1841.
  Synonyms
  embrace, take on, acquire, affect, espouse, assume, appropriate, arrogate
4British (of a local authority) accept responsibility for the maintenance of (a road).
Example sentencesExamples
- Essex County Council has also agreed to adopt roads and is also subsidising a bus service.
- 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.
- The Council has sent out letters telling residents that the Council are going to adopt the roads, but we, the residents, are being asked to pay to bring the roads up to standard before they get adopted.
- A Wiltshire County Council spokesman said plans were in hand for the council to adopt the road as a highway in a year's time.

Derivatives

adoptable

adjective əˈdɒptəb(ə)ləˈdɑptəb(ə)l

I do, however, note that the evidence is that the child is adoptable and that there would be no difficulty in finding appropriate adoptive parents.
Example sentencesExamples
- Other safeguards are emerging to keep adoptable pets out of harm's way.
- The methods and institutions and ethos of science that arose in the West at the time of the ‘scientific revolution’ proved to be the most exportable and universally adoptable products of civilisation.
- Under this general law, for instance, one way babies become adoptable is by the consent of their biological parents.
- Anderson said the dog was a stray, and was not adoptable because of its aggressiveness.

adoptee

noun əˌdɒpˈtiːəˌdɑpˈti

They will decide on suitable adoptive parents for each adoptee.
Example sentencesExamples
- Counselling would be available to adult adoptees, foster children, birth families and adoptive families, the report says.
- There are about six million adoptees in the United States.
- A few years ago, as often happens later in life with adoptees, she began searching for her real parents.
- Karen has already interviewed about 40 adoptees but is hoping to speak to more before holding a seminar in November.

adopter

noun əˈdɒptəəˈdɑptər

Sue has interviewed birth mothers, adopted people, adopters and social workers to put together a history of adoption over the last century.
Example sentencesExamples
- In comparison, Swisscom has helped lead Switzerland to its position as one of the top broadband adopters in western Europe.
- ‘This is the room we use for handing over babies to adopters,’ Laurelie Gray, supervisor of the unit, said.
- Prospective adopters need not be perfect, but do need to be open-minded, honest, flexible and see the process from the child's perspective.
- There's also a lot of early technology adopters in Japan.

Origin

Late 15th century: via French from Latin adoptare, from ad- 'to' + optare 'choose'.

option from mid 16th century:
This goes back to Latin optare ‘choose’. Keep your options open is only recorded from the 1960s. You choose a specific child to adopt (Late Middle English) and this comes from the related word adopatare ‘choose for yourself’.

Rhymes

co-opt, Copt, opt

Definition of adopt in US English:

adopt

verbəˈdɑptəˈdäpt

[with object]

1Legally take (another's child) and bring it up as one's own.
there are many people eager to adopt a baby
Example sentencesExamples
- There are really no rules of thumb, but older couples are less likely to adopt infants and many younger couples prefer babies in order to fit in with peer groups.
- Legally, they could then adopt children in Florida.
- In the USA last year 46,000 foster care children were adopted - an increase of 65 per cent on the figure in 1996.
- But just because you can legally adopt a child does not necessarily mean it is in the best interests of that child to be adopted by you.
- Such couples may have to wait a number of years before they can legally adopt a child.
- However, he has no living relatives that will adopt the orphan.
- Clare and Dan adopted three youngsters, aged three, four and seven.
- About 4,939 Russian children are legally adopted by foreigners each year, but 184,000 still languish in orphanages.
- Foundlings were adopted by neighbors, and accorded privileged status in the community, by way of compensating them for the loss of their parents.
- From what I have gathered they are going to adopt an orphan and have told many people.
- The couple adopted two children, a boy and a girl.
- Of this number, half of the families adopt healthy infants.
- Some time before I got to know her, Mona adopted a baby girl named Ayesha.
- When you adopt a child, he or she is legally yours; you have all the rights and responsibilities that a birth parent has.
- The children were adopted from two orphanages in Hunan province.
- No one would adopt a seventeen-year-old orphan.
- ‘Each household in a functioning community can adopt orphans and others who have no homes anymore,’ he said.
- If a person legally adopts a child there can be several complications.
- We have laws in this country to decide whether a couple are legally fit to adopt a child.
- We can legally marry and adopt children in every jurisdiction.
2Choose to take up or follow (an idea, method, or course of action)
this approach has been adopted by many big banks
Example sentencesExamples
- At the birth of the Second Republic, 90% of Italians voted to adopt a first-past-the-post method.
- At the same time, some readers may find both essays comforting; after all, both authors have elected to adopt new methods in their research programs.
- By adopting the method, Mr. Haridas is able to even defeat a computer in calculations.
- Though there was a lot of criticism from various quarters at that time, today the present coaches are adopting the method, which was introduced by Balkishen Singh.
- The Catholic and Protestant Churches adopted different methods.
- Some of the Chinese have adopted the western method of toasting, but where this is the case, everyone must touch everyone else's glass during the toasting and before drinking.
- Until that time, sauces followed the Roman method adopted by Taillevent: where thick pieces of stale bread were soaked in liquid and then strained through cloth.
- Many complain about the way in which editing techniques have, in the hope of creating excitement, adopted the methods used in music videos.
- He adopted the method of the ‘snapshot,’ of the intimate and the incidental, as a ‘style.’
- The women claim they have adopted a simple method to ensure men don't drink: they take their evening meals by 6 pm.
- It means adopting different methods for different groups.
- Only a few firms succeeded in not only getting bigger, but also in adopting the American methods of managerial organization adequate to their new size.
- A few astrologers have chosen to adopt a third method of division.
- It is important to keep in mind that whatever method is adopted for quitting smoking, the most important factors are conviction and willpower.
- I agree that this was an option and not obligatory, but most consulting engineers chose to adopt this method, as it satisfied the needs for the brief and avoided the need for dimensioning the drawings.
- People who go through this dilemma expect their organisations to motivate them to work by adopting methods such as get-togethers, meditation and yoga programmes.
- The latest developments have also inspired some political analysts to urge the state to adopt a different method of dealing with the group.
- The idea is that Keynes during his career adopted a particular method of investigation based on the close connection between theory and practice.
- For this final experiment, we are adopting a new method.
- Successive generations, of course, have adopted American ways for dealing with the medical community.
Synonyms
embrace, take on, acquire, affect, espouse, assume, appropriate, arrogate
1. 2.1 Choose and move to (a country or city) as one's permanent place of residence.
  Example sentencesExamples
  They can trace back their ancestors, who came to India and adopted this country as their own and identify with them.
  I've adopted this country and feel a certain amount of responsibility towards it.
  Why shouldn't we open our highest office to those who have adopted this country as their own and have proved their patriotism through decades of devoted citizenship?
  From humble beginnings in the Welsh valleys he became a national celebrity, who adopted this city as his home and became one of Bradford's leading and best-loved citizens.
3Take on or assume (an attitude or position)
he adopted a patronizing tone
Example sentencesExamples
- States have adopted different positions on this.
- As both sides adopted firm positions yesterday, it was confirmed that a strike at the company's pig farms will begin on Monday the day before the major work stoppage.
- This time around, the union says it consulted its members widely before adopting a negotiating position, which now stresses cultural and family issues.
- The political parties are also jostling with each other for favour with the voters by adopting hard-line positions.
- If both parties were to adopt extreme positions, no bills at all could be passed.
- Assuming an effective role as mediator in the region, the group might be able to adopt a position where it could exert a highly positive influence over the future of the region for a long time to come.
- One cannot be sure what it was about the appearance or the behaviour of this insect that led the Greeks to call it, too, mantis; perhaps its habit of adopting a motionless position as if transfixed.
- I was adopting a position of enlightened intellectual who was going to teach my Midwestern students about the realities and inequalities of their nation.
- The government adopted the position that the reactors should be decommissioned in 2006, but insisted on a safety inspection.
- The football associations of Wales and Northern Ireland have adopted a similar position.
- Flight crew triggered a full emergency, donning smoke hoods and telling passengers to adopt brace positions before the plane landed safely 12 minutes later at 8.47 am.
- No matter what the Court may announce on Monday, it will not be adopting this extreme position.
- Not all writers adopting a constructionist position are similarly prepared to acknowledge the existence or at least importance of an objective reality.
- Both government and opposition have been adopting positions which they will repeat over and over again during the period of this parliament.
- Like much of continental philosophy, feminist continental philosophy adopts a critical position with regard to reason.
- She is an antireductionist - a position sometimes adopted by those who dislike what they perceive to be the direction of modern genetics.
- Dunbar adopts an intriguing position on the origin of language, seeing it as taking over many of the social functions of physical contact and grooming that for many monkey species take up a considerable part of each day.
- To be fair, I think this is the fault of both sides, and leaders on both ends need to make the conscious decision to cooperate issue by issue instead of adopting a polarized position by default.
- They had to be flexible, and adopt different positions to accommodate ever changing circumstances.
- Shortly after that the pilot told us it was a full emergency landing and we had to adopt the brace position.
1. 3.1British Choose (someone) as a candidate for office.
  she was recently adopted as Labour candidate for the constituency
  Example sentencesExamples
  Nationalist stalwarts foregather in Elgin tonight to adopt their candidate for the forthcoming Moray by-election, now declared for April 27.
  After coming joint top of the civil service exam, he joined the sector in 1946, only to resign the following year when he was adopted as the Parliamentary candidate for Bexley.
  He was officially adopted as a prospective candidate at a party meeting on Monday, April 18, 1955.
  The local Tory party in Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross was due yesterday to take a decision on whether to adopt him as a candidate.
  He was adopted as a parliamentary candidate in 1976 and within two years was on a key Scottish Labour Party committee.
  Livingstone has said that if he is adopted as party candidate, he will nominate Gavron as his running mate for deputy.
  In 1962, in Sir David's final year at university, he was adopted as prospective parliamentary candidate for the Pentlands.
  In 1926, after returning to England from living in the United States, she was adopted as a Conservative candidate in the East End of London.
  The Orkney Conservative Party are due to adopt Christopher Zawadski as their prospective parliamentary candidate to stand in the next election.
  In 1921 he was adopted as a Labour candidate for Battersea North.
  A British senior civil servant, in contrast, is required to resign his post once he is adopted as a prospective political candidate, and very few have followed this course.
  Synonyms
  choose, select, pick, pick out, vote for, elect, settle on, decide on, single out, plump for, opt for, name, nominate, designate, appoint
2. 3.2 Formally approve or accept (a report or suggestion)
  the committee voted 5–1 to adopt the proposal
  Example sentencesExamples
  The report was yesterday adopted by all senators with the Opposition fully in support of its contents and the eventual conclusion.
  Only 15 of the 55 of the respondents reported having a formally adopted a written programmatic assessment plan.
  It is unusual for a Japanese court to adopt reports by foreign investigative authorities as evidence.
  He said the report was not adopted unanimously.
  While the report was adopted unanimously, two members assented with qualifications.
  But what would he do if the report is not adopted?
  His report was adopted by the British government and the two colonies were united in 1841.
  More detailed labelling on products for consumers would also result if the report is adopted by the minister.
  Those measures are expected to be formally adopted by the approvals social services committee next Tuesday.
  The report was adopted at the top security meeting of ministers in charge of defense and foreign affairs.
  The councillors concluded by adopting the report and agreed to promote the idea that every house in the town should have smoke alarms installed.
  The committee unanimously voted to adopt the report and take the first steps towards implementing some of the suggestions.
  On the face of it, if the recommendations made by this report were adopted as Government policy, there would be clear benefits for infrequent road users.
  The recommendations of the Harvard report were gratefully adopted by many authorities who were faced with these problems.
  The Council approved the insertion of some minor clarifications in language and then adopted the amended report as Association policy.
  It is all the more important, therefore, that ministers adopt the report's recommendations.
  It was agreed to adopt the report outlining the proposals as the basis for consultation with interested parties.
  The final report was adopted by the plenary session in February 1987.
  After that, the city council will decide which suggestions will be formally adopted.
  If the report is widely adopted by the funders and builders of dams, it will pave the way for a new era of protecting rivers and the communities that depend upon them.
  Synonyms
  embrace, take on, acquire, affect, espouse, assume, appropriate, arrogate

Origin

Late 15th century: via French from Latin adoptare, from ad- ‘to’ + optare ‘choose’.

单词	adopt
释义	Definition of adopt in English: adopt verb əˈdɒptəˈdɑpt [with object] 1Legally take (another's child) and bring it up as one's own. there are many people eager to adopt a baby Example sentencesExamples From what I have gathered they are going to adopt an orphan and have told many people. Of this number, half of the families adopt healthy infants. But just because you can legally adopt a child does not necessarily mean it is in the best interests of that child to be adopted by you. If a person legally adopts a child there can be several complications. The children were adopted from two orphanages in Hunan province. We can legally marry and adopt children in every jurisdiction. ‘Each household in a functioning community can adopt orphans and others who have no homes anymore,’ he said. However, he has no living relatives that will adopt the orphan. Such couples may have to wait a number of years before they can legally adopt a child. In the USA last year 46,000 foster care children were adopted - an increase of 65 per cent on the figure in 1996. Foundlings were adopted by neighbors, and accorded privileged status in the community, by way of compensating them for the loss of their parents. The couple adopted two children, a boy and a girl. There are really no rules of thumb, but older couples are less likely to adopt infants and many younger couples prefer babies in order to fit in with peer groups. About 4,939 Russian children are legally adopted by foreigners each year, but 184,000 still languish in orphanages. Clare and Dan adopted three youngsters, aged three, four and seven. No one would adopt a seventeen-year-old orphan. Legally, they could then adopt children in Florida. Some time before I got to know her, Mona adopted a baby girl named Ayesha. When you adopt a child, he or she is legally yours; you have all the rights and responsibilities that a birth parent has. We have laws in this country to decide whether a couple are legally fit to adopt a child. 2Choose to take up or follow (an idea, method, or course of action) this approach has been adopted by many big banks Example sentencesExamples The idea is that Keynes during his career adopted a particular method of investigation based on the close connection between theory and practice. At the birth of the Second Republic, 90% of Italians voted to adopt a first-past-the-post method. The women claim they have adopted a simple method to ensure men don't drink: they take their evening meals by 6 pm. I agree that this was an option and not obligatory, but most consulting engineers chose to adopt this method, as it satisfied the needs for the brief and avoided the need for dimensioning the drawings. At the same time, some readers may find both essays comforting; after all, both authors have elected to adopt new methods in their research programs. It means adopting different methods for different groups. Until that time, sauces followed the Roman method adopted by Taillevent: where thick pieces of stale bread were soaked in liquid and then strained through cloth. It is important to keep in mind that whatever method is adopted for quitting smoking, the most important factors are conviction and willpower. People who go through this dilemma expect their organisations to motivate them to work by adopting methods such as get-togethers, meditation and yoga programmes. For this final experiment, we are adopting a new method. Successive generations, of course, have adopted American ways for dealing with the medical community. A few astrologers have chosen to adopt a third method of division. He adopted the method of the ‘snapshot,’ of the intimate and the incidental, as a ‘style.’ Though there was a lot of criticism from various quarters at that time, today the present coaches are adopting the method, which was introduced by Balkishen Singh. Many complain about the way in which editing techniques have, in the hope of creating excitement, adopted the methods used in music videos. The Catholic and Protestant Churches adopted different methods. By adopting the method, Mr. Haridas is able to even defeat a computer in calculations. Only a few firms succeeded in not only getting bigger, but also in adopting the American methods of managerial organization adequate to their new size. The latest developments have also inspired some political analysts to urge the state to adopt a different method of dealing with the group. Some of the Chinese have adopted the western method of toasting, but where this is the case, everyone must touch everyone else's glass during the toasting and before drinking. Synonyms embrace, take on, acquire, affect, espouse, assume, appropriate, arrogate 2.1 Choose and move to (a country or city) as one's permanent place of residence. Example sentencesExamples They can trace back their ancestors, who came to India and adopted this country as their own and identify with them. From humble beginnings in the Welsh valleys he became a national celebrity, who adopted this city as his home and became one of Bradford's leading and best-loved citizens. Why shouldn't we open our highest office to those who have adopted this country as their own and have proved their patriotism through decades of devoted citizenship? I've adopted this country and feel a certain amount of responsibility towards it. 3Take on or assume (an attitude or position) he adopted a patronizing tone Example sentencesExamples Both government and opposition have been adopting positions which they will repeat over and over again during the period of this parliament. They had to be flexible, and adopt different positions to accommodate ever changing circumstances. To be fair, I think this is the fault of both sides, and leaders on both ends need to make the conscious decision to cooperate issue by issue instead of adopting a polarized position by default. Like much of continental philosophy, feminist continental philosophy adopts a critical position with regard to reason. Dunbar adopts an intriguing position on the origin of language, seeing it as taking over many of the social functions of physical contact and grooming that for many monkey species take up a considerable part of each day. Shortly after that the pilot told us it was a full emergency landing and we had to adopt the brace position. As both sides adopted firm positions yesterday, it was confirmed that a strike at the company's pig farms will begin on Monday the day before the major work stoppage. No matter what the Court may announce on Monday, it will not be adopting this extreme position. Assuming an effective role as mediator in the region, the group might be able to adopt a position where it could exert a highly positive influence over the future of the region for a long time to come. If both parties were to adopt extreme positions, no bills at all could be passed. Flight crew triggered a full emergency, donning smoke hoods and telling passengers to adopt brace positions before the plane landed safely 12 minutes later at 8.47 am. I was adopting a position of enlightened intellectual who was going to teach my Midwestern students about the realities and inequalities of their nation. States have adopted different positions on this. The government adopted the position that the reactors should be decommissioned in 2006, but insisted on a safety inspection. This time around, the union says it consulted its members widely before adopting a negotiating position, which now stresses cultural and family issues. Not all writers adopting a constructionist position are similarly prepared to acknowledge the existence or at least importance of an objective reality. The political parties are also jostling with each other for favour with the voters by adopting hard-line positions. One cannot be sure what it was about the appearance or the behaviour of this insect that led the Greeks to call it, too, mantis; perhaps its habit of adopting a motionless position as if transfixed. The football associations of Wales and Northern Ireland have adopted a similar position. She is an antireductionist - a position sometimes adopted by those who dislike what they perceive to be the direction of modern genetics. 3.1British Choose (someone) as a candidate for office. she was recently adopted as Labour candidate for the constituency Example sentencesExamples Livingstone has said that if he is adopted as party candidate, he will nominate Gavron as his running mate for deputy. He was officially adopted as a prospective candidate at a party meeting on Monday, April 18, 1955. In 1921 he was adopted as a Labour candidate for Battersea North. Nationalist stalwarts foregather in Elgin tonight to adopt their candidate for the forthcoming Moray by-election, now declared for April 27. In 1926, after returning to England from living in the United States, she was adopted as a Conservative candidate in the East End of London. After coming joint top of the civil service exam, he joined the sector in 1946, only to resign the following year when he was adopted as the Parliamentary candidate for Bexley. He was adopted as a parliamentary candidate in 1976 and within two years was on a key Scottish Labour Party committee. The Orkney Conservative Party are due to adopt Christopher Zawadski as their prospective parliamentary candidate to stand in the next election. In 1962, in Sir David's final year at university, he was adopted as prospective parliamentary candidate for the Pentlands. The local Tory party in Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross was due yesterday to take a decision on whether to adopt him as a candidate. A British senior civil servant, in contrast, is required to resign his post once he is adopted as a prospective political candidate, and very few have followed this course. Synonyms choose, select, pick, pick out, vote for, elect, settle on, decide on, single out, plump for, opt for, name, nominate, designate, appoint 3.2 Formally approve or accept (a report or suggestion) the committee voted 5–1 to adopt the proposal Example sentencesExamples Only 15 of the 55 of the respondents reported having a formally adopted a written programmatic assessment plan. The Council approved the insertion of some minor clarifications in language and then adopted the amended report as Association policy. On the face of it, if the recommendations made by this report were adopted as Government policy, there would be clear benefits for infrequent road users. More detailed labelling on products for consumers would also result if the report is adopted by the minister. After that, the city council will decide which suggestions will be formally adopted. He said the report was not adopted unanimously. The committee unanimously voted to adopt the report and take the first steps towards implementing some of the suggestions. The councillors concluded by adopting the report and agreed to promote the idea that every house in the town should have smoke alarms installed. If the report is widely adopted by the funders and builders of dams, it will pave the way for a new era of protecting rivers and the communities that depend upon them. It was agreed to adopt the report outlining the proposals as the basis for consultation with interested parties. But what would he do if the report is not adopted? Those measures are expected to be formally adopted by the approvals social services committee next Tuesday. The report was adopted at the top security meeting of ministers in charge of defense and foreign affairs. While the report was adopted unanimously, two members assented with qualifications. It is unusual for a Japanese court to adopt reports by foreign investigative authorities as evidence. The report was yesterday adopted by all senators with the Opposition fully in support of its contents and the eventual conclusion. The final report was adopted by the plenary session in February 1987. The recommendations of the Harvard report were gratefully adopted by many authorities who were faced with these problems. It is all the more important, therefore, that ministers adopt the report's recommendations. His report was adopted by the British government and the two colonies were united in 1841. Synonyms embrace, take on, acquire, affect, espouse, assume, appropriate, arrogate 4British (of a local authority) accept responsibility for the maintenance of (a road). Example sentencesExamples Essex County Council has also agreed to adopt roads and is also subsidising a bus service. 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. The Council has sent out letters telling residents that the Council are going to adopt the roads, but we, the residents, are being asked to pay to bring the roads up to standard before they get adopted. A Wiltshire County Council spokesman said plans were in hand for the council to adopt the road as a highway in a year's time. Derivatives adoptable adjective əˈdɒptəb(ə)ləˈdɑptəb(ə)l I do, however, note that the evidence is that the child is adoptable and that there would be no difficulty in finding appropriate adoptive parents. Example sentencesExamples Other safeguards are emerging to keep adoptable pets out of harm's way. The methods and institutions and ethos of science that arose in the West at the time of the ‘scientific revolution’ proved to be the most exportable and universally adoptable products of civilisation. Under this general law, for instance, one way babies become adoptable is by the consent of their biological parents. Anderson said the dog was a stray, and was not adoptable because of its aggressiveness. adoptee noun əˌdɒpˈtiːəˌdɑpˈti They will decide on suitable adoptive parents for each adoptee. Example sentencesExamples Counselling would be available to adult adoptees, foster children, birth families and adoptive families, the report says. There are about six million adoptees in the United States. A few years ago, as often happens later in life with adoptees, she began searching for her real parents. Karen has already interviewed about 40 adoptees but is hoping to speak to more before holding a seminar in November. adopter noun əˈdɒptəəˈdɑptər Sue has interviewed birth mothers, adopted people, adopters and social workers to put together a history of adoption over the last century. Example sentencesExamples In comparison, Swisscom has helped lead Switzerland to its position as one of the top broadband adopters in western Europe. ‘This is the room we use for handing over babies to adopters,’ Laurelie Gray, supervisor of the unit, said. Prospective adopters need not be perfect, but do need to be open-minded, honest, flexible and see the process from the child's perspective. There's also a lot of early technology adopters in Japan. Origin Late 15th century: via French from Latin adoptare, from ad- 'to' + optare 'choose'. option from mid 16th century: This goes back to Latin optare ‘choose’. Keep your options open is only recorded from the 1960s. You choose a specific child to adopt (Late Middle English) and this comes from the related word adopatare ‘choose for yourself’. Rhymes co-opt, Copt, opt Definition of adopt in US English: adopt verbəˈdɑptəˈdäpt [with object] 1Legally take (another's child) and bring it up as one's own. there are many people eager to adopt a baby Example sentencesExamples There are really no rules of thumb, but older couples are less likely to adopt infants and many younger couples prefer babies in order to fit in with peer groups. Legally, they could then adopt children in Florida. In the USA last year 46,000 foster care children were adopted - an increase of 65 per cent on the figure in 1996. But just because you can legally adopt a child does not necessarily mean it is in the best interests of that child to be adopted by you. Such couples may have to wait a number of years before they can legally adopt a child. However, he has no living relatives that will adopt the orphan. Clare and Dan adopted three youngsters, aged three, four and seven. About 4,939 Russian children are legally adopted by foreigners each year, but 184,000 still languish in orphanages. Foundlings were adopted by neighbors, and accorded privileged status in the community, by way of compensating them for the loss of their parents. From what I have gathered they are going to adopt an orphan and have told many people. The couple adopted two children, a boy and a girl. Of this number, half of the families adopt healthy infants. Some time before I got to know her, Mona adopted a baby girl named Ayesha. When you adopt a child, he or she is legally yours; you have all the rights and responsibilities that a birth parent has. The children were adopted from two orphanages in Hunan province. No one would adopt a seventeen-year-old orphan. ‘Each household in a functioning community can adopt orphans and others who have no homes anymore,’ he said. If a person legally adopts a child there can be several complications. We have laws in this country to decide whether a couple are legally fit to adopt a child. We can legally marry and adopt children in every jurisdiction. 2Choose to take up or follow (an idea, method, or course of action) this approach has been adopted by many big banks Example sentencesExamples At the birth of the Second Republic, 90% of Italians voted to adopt a first-past-the-post method. At the same time, some readers may find both essays comforting; after all, both authors have elected to adopt new methods in their research programs. By adopting the method, Mr. Haridas is able to even defeat a computer in calculations. Though there was a lot of criticism from various quarters at that time, today the present coaches are adopting the method, which was introduced by Balkishen Singh. The Catholic and Protestant Churches adopted different methods. Some of the Chinese have adopted the western method of toasting, but where this is the case, everyone must touch everyone else's glass during the toasting and before drinking. Until that time, sauces followed the Roman method adopted by Taillevent: where thick pieces of stale bread were soaked in liquid and then strained through cloth. Many complain about the way in which editing techniques have, in the hope of creating excitement, adopted the methods used in music videos. He adopted the method of the ‘snapshot,’ of the intimate and the incidental, as a ‘style.’ The women claim they have adopted a simple method to ensure men don't drink: they take their evening meals by 6 pm. It means adopting different methods for different groups. Only a few firms succeeded in not only getting bigger, but also in adopting the American methods of managerial organization adequate to their new size. A few astrologers have chosen to adopt a third method of division. It is important to keep in mind that whatever method is adopted for quitting smoking, the most important factors are conviction and willpower. I agree that this was an option and not obligatory, but most consulting engineers chose to adopt this method, as it satisfied the needs for the brief and avoided the need for dimensioning the drawings. People who go through this dilemma expect their organisations to motivate them to work by adopting methods such as get-togethers, meditation and yoga programmes. The latest developments have also inspired some political analysts to urge the state to adopt a different method of dealing with the group. The idea is that Keynes during his career adopted a particular method of investigation based on the close connection between theory and practice. For this final experiment, we are adopting a new method. Successive generations, of course, have adopted American ways for dealing with the medical community. Synonyms embrace, take on, acquire, affect, espouse, assume, appropriate, arrogate 2.1 Choose and move to (a country or city) as one's permanent place of residence. Example sentencesExamples They can trace back their ancestors, who came to India and adopted this country as their own and identify with them. I've adopted this country and feel a certain amount of responsibility towards it. Why shouldn't we open our highest office to those who have adopted this country as their own and have proved their patriotism through decades of devoted citizenship? From humble beginnings in the Welsh valleys he became a national celebrity, who adopted this city as his home and became one of Bradford's leading and best-loved citizens. 3Take on or assume (an attitude or position) he adopted a patronizing tone Example sentencesExamples States have adopted different positions on this. As both sides adopted firm positions yesterday, it was confirmed that a strike at the company's pig farms will begin on Monday the day before the major work stoppage. This time around, the union says it consulted its members widely before adopting a negotiating position, which now stresses cultural and family issues. The political parties are also jostling with each other for favour with the voters by adopting hard-line positions. If both parties were to adopt extreme positions, no bills at all could be passed. Assuming an effective role as mediator in the region, the group might be able to adopt a position where it could exert a highly positive influence over the future of the region for a long time to come. One cannot be sure what it was about the appearance or the behaviour of this insect that led the Greeks to call it, too, mantis; perhaps its habit of adopting a motionless position as if transfixed. I was adopting a position of enlightened intellectual who was going to teach my Midwestern students about the realities and inequalities of their nation. The government adopted the position that the reactors should be decommissioned in 2006, but insisted on a safety inspection. The football associations of Wales and Northern Ireland have adopted a similar position. Flight crew triggered a full emergency, donning smoke hoods and telling passengers to adopt brace positions before the plane landed safely 12 minutes later at 8.47 am. No matter what the Court may announce on Monday, it will not be adopting this extreme position. Not all writers adopting a constructionist position are similarly prepared to acknowledge the existence or at least importance of an objective reality. Both government and opposition have been adopting positions which they will repeat over and over again during the period of this parliament. Like much of continental philosophy, feminist continental philosophy adopts a critical position with regard to reason. She is an antireductionist - a position sometimes adopted by those who dislike what they perceive to be the direction of modern genetics. Dunbar adopts an intriguing position on the origin of language, seeing it as taking over many of the social functions of physical contact and grooming that for many monkey species take up a considerable part of each day. To be fair, I think this is the fault of both sides, and leaders on both ends need to make the conscious decision to cooperate issue by issue instead of adopting a polarized position by default. They had to be flexible, and adopt different positions to accommodate ever changing circumstances. Shortly after that the pilot told us it was a full emergency landing and we had to adopt the brace position. 3.1British Choose (someone) as a candidate for office. she was recently adopted as Labour candidate for the constituency Example sentencesExamples Nationalist stalwarts foregather in Elgin tonight to adopt their candidate for the forthcoming Moray by-election, now declared for April 27. After coming joint top of the civil service exam, he joined the sector in 1946, only to resign the following year when he was adopted as the Parliamentary candidate for Bexley. He was officially adopted as a prospective candidate at a party meeting on Monday, April 18, 1955. The local Tory party in Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross was due yesterday to take a decision on whether to adopt him as a candidate. He was adopted as a parliamentary candidate in 1976 and within two years was on a key Scottish Labour Party committee. Livingstone has said that if he is adopted as party candidate, he will nominate Gavron as his running mate for deputy. In 1962, in Sir David's final year at university, he was adopted as prospective parliamentary candidate for the Pentlands. In 1926, after returning to England from living in the United States, she was adopted as a Conservative candidate in the East End of London. The Orkney Conservative Party are due to adopt Christopher Zawadski as their prospective parliamentary candidate to stand in the next election. In 1921 he was adopted as a Labour candidate for Battersea North. A British senior civil servant, in contrast, is required to resign his post once he is adopted as a prospective political candidate, and very few have followed this course. Synonyms choose, select, pick, pick out, vote for, elect, settle on, decide on, single out, plump for, opt for, name, nominate, designate, appoint 3.2 Formally approve or accept (a report or suggestion) the committee voted 5–1 to adopt the proposal Example sentencesExamples The report was yesterday adopted by all senators with the Opposition fully in support of its contents and the eventual conclusion. Only 15 of the 55 of the respondents reported having a formally adopted a written programmatic assessment plan. It is unusual for a Japanese court to adopt reports by foreign investigative authorities as evidence. He said the report was not adopted unanimously. While the report was adopted unanimously, two members assented with qualifications. But what would he do if the report is not adopted? His report was adopted by the British government and the two colonies were united in 1841. More detailed labelling on products for consumers would also result if the report is adopted by the minister. Those measures are expected to be formally adopted by the approvals social services committee next Tuesday. The report was adopted at the top security meeting of ministers in charge of defense and foreign affairs. The councillors concluded by adopting the report and agreed to promote the idea that every house in the town should have smoke alarms installed. The committee unanimously voted to adopt the report and take the first steps towards implementing some of the suggestions. On the face of it, if the recommendations made by this report were adopted as Government policy, there would be clear benefits for infrequent road users. The recommendations of the Harvard report were gratefully adopted by many authorities who were faced with these problems. The Council approved the insertion of some minor clarifications in language and then adopted the amended report as Association policy. It is all the more important, therefore, that ministers adopt the report's recommendations. It was agreed to adopt the report outlining the proposals as the basis for consultation with interested parties. The final report was adopted by the plenary session in February 1987. After that, the city council will decide which suggestions will be formally adopted. If the report is widely adopted by the funders and builders of dams, it will pave the way for a new era of protecting rivers and the communities that depend upon them. Synonyms embrace, take on, acquire, affect, espouse, assume, appropriate, arrogate Origin Late 15th century: via French from Latin adoptare, from ad- ‘to’ + optare ‘choose’.
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