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Another word for adoption

NOUN

  1. A ready taking up of something

    See also:

    give

    accept

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for adoption

NOUN

  1. Selection

    See also:

    selection

  2. Acceptance

    See also:

    permission

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • Much as she wanted the baby, she felt adoption was the best choice.

  • Could you have Alex get the adoption paperwork started?

  • It was an open adoption and Lori had every right to see Destiny.

  • As soon as Lori was able, she signed the adoption papers and left the state with her sister.

  • The story of the adoption of Moses by the Egyptian princess appealed to later imagination (Josephus,.

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