adoption

/ə'dɔpʃn/

Thân thiện

A family celebrates the adoption of their new child.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • The legal act of taking another's child as one's own: The formal process that establishes a permanent parent-child relationship between individuals not biologically related, granting the child all rights and privileges of a biological child.
   • The act of accepting, approving, or beginning to use something: The act of taking up and using an idea, method, policy, or custom.
   • The act of choosing or taking something as one's own: The selection and acceptance of something, such as a proposal or standard.

Usage

• Legal/Familial Context: Used to describe the legal process of becoming a parent to a child who is not one's biological offspring.
• General Acceptance Context: Used to describe the act of formally accepting and starting to use a new idea, technology, practice, or standard.

Examples

• Legal/Familial Context:
  • They celebrated the finalization of their daughter's adoption.
  • The adoption process can be lengthy but rewarding.
• General Acceptance Context:
  • The rapid adoption of smartphones changed communication.
  • The committee recommended the adoption of the new policy.

Advanced Usage

• "Adoption of": This is the most common collocation, indicating what is being taken on (e.g., a child, a technology, a strategy).
  • The widespread adoption of renewable energy is crucial.
• "Put up for adoption": A phrase describing when a child's biological parents or guardians legally make them available to be adopted by another family.
  • The infant was put up for adoption shortly after birth.

Variants and Related Words

• Adopt (verb): To take a child as one's own by legal process; to choose to take up, follow, or use.
  • They decided to adopt a child from overseas.
  • The company will adopt a new software system.
• Adoptive (adjective): Describes the parent(s) who have adopted a child, or the relationship created by adoption.
  • She has a very close bond with her adoptive mother.
• Adoptee (noun): A person who has been adopted.

Synonyms

• Assumption: The act of taking on a role, responsibility, or form.
• Acceptance: The action of consenting to receive or undertake something.
• Embracement: The act of accepting something willingly or enthusiastically.
• Fostering (in the context of care, but distinct legally from adoption): Providing parental care to a child not biologically one's own, often temporarily.

Antonyms

• Rejection: The act of refusing to accept, consider, or use something.
• Relinquishment: The voluntary surrender of rights or possession, often used in the context of a parent giving up a child.
• Abandonment: The act of leaving something or someone permanently.

Related Phrases

• Open adoption: An adoption process where varying degrees of contact between the birth family, adoptive family, and adopted child are maintained.
• Closed adoption: An adoption process where no identifying information is shared between birth and adoptive families, and no contact occurs.
• International adoption: The adoption of a child from a country different from the adoptive parents' country of residence.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source
   • the borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent
2. a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)
3. the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception
   • its adoption by society
   • the proposal found wide acceptance

Từ đồng nghĩa

• borrowing
• acceptance
• acceptation
• espousal