read-opted
verb (used with object)
Verb phrases 1.
to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent: to adopt a nickname.
2.
to take and rear (the child of other parents) as one's own child, specifically by a formal legal act.
3.
to take or receive into any kind of new relationship: to adopt a person as a protégé.
4.
to select as a basic or required textbook or series of textbooks in a course.
5.
to vote to accept: The House adopted the report.
7.
adopt out, to place (a child) for adoption: The institution may keep a child or adopt it out.
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| —vb | |
| 1. | law to bring (a person) into a specific relationship, esp to take (another's child) as one's own child |
| 2. | to choose and follow (a plan, technique, etc) |
| 3. | to take over (an idea, etc) as if it were one's own |
| 4. | to take on; assume: to adopt a title |
| 5. | to accept (a report, etc) |
| [C16: from Latin adoptāre to choose for oneself, from optāre to choose] | |
| adop'tee | |
| —n | |
| a'dopter | |
| —n | |
| a'doption | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
adopt
1540s, from Fr. adopter (14c.), from L. adoptare "choose for oneself" (esp. a child); see adoption. Or perhaps a back-formation from Eng. adoption. Originally in Eng. also of friends, fathers, citizens, etc. Sense of "to legally take as one's own child" and that of "to
embrace, espouse" a practice, method, etc. are from c.1600.
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