Meaning

noun the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception

noun 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 (incl

noun the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source

originBorrowed from French adoption, from Latin adoptio, allied to adoptare (“to adopt”). Equivalent to adopt + -ion.

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