ALL meanings of adoption
a·dop·tion
A a - noun adoption The action or fact of adopting or being adopted. 1
- noun adoption the act of adopting: the adoption of a new amendment. 1
- noun adoption the state of being adopted. 1
- noun adoption parenting of child not blood-related 1
- noun adoption appropriation: of idea 1
- noun adoption role: taking on 1
- noun adoption 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. 0
- noun adoption Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another. 0
- noun adoption The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions. 0
- noun adoption (computing) Transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system. 0