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adoption definition and meaning

n. The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.
n. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
n. The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.

Crossword clues for adoption

- Acceptance (of policy)
- Permanent fostering
- Taking on
- Taking up