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# adoption

noun (adoption, adoptions)

«adoption» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Taking a child into your family by law and becoming their parent for ever. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoption/#m1)
2. Taking an animal from a shelter to give it a home: pet adoption. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoption/#m2)
3. Starting to use a new idea, rule or method: the adoption of a new timetable. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoption/#m3)

### In the lessons

In everyday life and stories, adoption is a loving way families are made, and adopted children are as much part of the family as any child. Pet adoption from rescue shelters is common. In formal language it means a school or country starting a new plan. Phrases: put up for adoption, adoption agency, adopted child, pet adoption.

### Examples

- My cousin joined our family through adoption. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoption/#x1)
- The shelter holds a pet adoption day every month. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoption/#x2)
- Adoption makes the child a full member of the family. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoption/#x3)
- The kitten is up for adoption. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoption/#x4)
- (formal) The adoption of the new rules took a year. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoption/#x5)
- They celebrate the day of her adoption with a cake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoption/#x6)

### Note

Verb: adopt; adjective: adopted, adoptive (adoptive parents). Do not confuse adopt (take as your own) with adapt (change to fit). Countable for each case, uncountable for the idea.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «adoption» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoption/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«adoption» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/adoption.html) on Mova free.