Adopted Adopt Child Extra Examples Policy Choose Verb

• a campaign to encourage childless couples to adopt
• to adopt a child
• she was forced to have her baby adopted.
• she adopted three children from the orphanage.

adopt

Verb Forms

1. to take somebody else’s child into your family and become its legal parent(s)
• COMPARE foster
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• a campaign to encourage childless couples to adopt
• to adopt a child
• She was forced to have her baby adopted.
• She adopted three children from the orphanage.

Extra Examples

• We would like to adopt a child.
• The child has now been legally adopted.
• The couple adopted two children.
2. to start to use a particular method or to show a particular attitude towards somebody/something
• All three teams adopted different approaches to the problem.
• Our study examined the strategies adopted by patients for seeking information.
• The police adopted tighter security measures.
• to adopt an attitude/stance/position

Extra Examples

• We could not agree on the best methods to adopt.
• He smiled and adopted a more casual tone of voice.
• The new manager adopted a very autocratic style.
• The female adopts a more passive role than the male.
3. to formally accept a suggestion or policy by voting
• The government adopted a resolution on disarmament.
• The council is expected to adopt the new policy at its next meeting.
• The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted the resolution.

Extra Examples

• The policy has not yet been formally adopted.
• What position do you adopt on this issue?
• the policies employers adopt towards the labour force
4. to choose a new name, a country, a custom, etc. and begin to use it as your own
• to adopt a name/title/language
• Early Christians in Europe adopted many of the practices of the older, pagan religions.

Extra Examples

• The royal family adopted the name of Windsor early in the last century.
• He adopted the dress and manners of an Englishman.
• The party adopted its current name in 1965.
5. to use a particular manner, way of speaking, expression, etc.
• He adopted an air of indifference.
6. to choose somebody as a candidate in an election; to choose somebody as your representative
• She was adopted as parliamentary candidate for Wood Green.
• The people adopted him as their patron saint.

Word Origin

• late 15th cent.: via French from Latin adoptare, from ad- ‘to’ + optare ‘choose’.