child
1 to take sb else's child into your family and become its legal parent(s):
[V] a campaign to encourage childless couples to adopt * [VN] to adopt a child * She was forced to have her baby adopted.
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method
2 [VN] to start to use a particular method or to show a particular attitude towards sb/sth:
All three teams adopted different approaches to the problem.
suggestion
3 [VN] to formally accept a suggestion or policy by voting:
to adopt a resolution * The council is expected to adopt the new policy at its next meeting.
new name / country
4 [VN] 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.
way of behaving
5 [VN] (formal) to use a particular manner, way of speaking, expression, etc:
He adopted an air of indifference.
candidate
6 [VN] ~ sb (as sth) (BrE, politics) to choose sb as a candidate in an election or as a representative:
She was adopted as parliamentary candidate for Wood Green.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for adopt is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is adopt a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, adopt is tagged as verb.
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