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Adoptions

The act of adopting.

📖 Definitions of "Adoptions"

noun
  1. 1

    The act of adopting.

  2. 2

    The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if he or she were one's own child.

    "A Chinese baby girl was given away for adoption."

  3. 3

    Admission to an institution, for example a hospital, clinic, mental asylum.

    "the adoption of people into hospitals or monasteries"

  4. 4

    The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance

    "the adoption of opinions"

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