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adoption noun

  /əˈdɑp.ʃən/ , /əˈdɒp.ʃən/
  • The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if he or she were one's own child.
  • An admission to an institution, for example a hospital, clinic, mental asylum.
  • The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance.
 adoption

adopt verb

  /əˈdɑpt/ , /əˈdɒpt/
  • To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.
 adoptere
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