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📖 Определения и значения для слова adopt

📒 to take somebody else’s child into your family and become its legal parent(s)

  • a campaign to encourage childless couples to adopt
  • adopt somebody to adopt a child
  • She was forced to have her baby adopted.

📒 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 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 UN Security Council unanimously adopted the resolution.

📒 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.
  • The royal family adopted the name of Windsor early in the last century.

📒 to use a particular manner, way of speaking, expression, etc.

  • He adopted an air of indifference.

📒 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.
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