Canadian English Meaning of adoption
adoption
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Definitions and Meaning of adoption in English
adoption (n)
the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception
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 (including the right to inherit)
the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source
adoption (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.
Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
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adoption
the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception, a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopt
acceptance,embrace,embrace,betrothal
departing,departure,Exit,leave,leaving,resignation,retirement,exit,quitting,relinquishment
adopting => adoption, adopter => adopter, adoptee => Adoptee, adopted => adopted, adoptable => adoptable,
