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Adoption
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Adoption
/əˈdɒpʃən/
Adoption is when someone legally becomes the parent of a child who was not born to them.
Synonyms:
acceptance
embracing
fostering
Antonyms:
rejection
abandonment
Examples:
The
adoption
of the puppy made us so happy.
Technology
adoption
is changing how we work and live.
Etymology:
From the Latin word
adoptio
, from
adoptare
, meaning
to choose for oneself, to take
(ad- + optare,
to choose
).
Usage Statistics:
20 mentions per 1 million words
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