1 [C,U] the act of adopting a child:
She put the baby up for adoption.
2 [U] the decision to start using sth such as an idea, a plan or a name:
the adoption of new technology
3 [C,U] (BrE, politics) the act of choosing sb as a candidate for an election:
his adoption as the Labour candidate
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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 adoption is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is adoption a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, adoption is tagged as noun.
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