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What does adoption mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of adopting
  2. The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if he or she were one's own child.
  3. Admission to an institution, for example a hospital, clinic, mental asylum.
  4. The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance
  5. (computing) Transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system.
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A public inquiry which could have led to the adoption of the plan was adjourned in February so planners could decide on a firm inner boundary.
My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption.
Particularly refreshing is the adoption in this volume of the notion of Eurasia as an integral ecumene of economic and cultural interaction.
The Scottish executive plans to legislate to change the law, extending rights of adoption.
The adoption of technology specific legislation is therefore not the answer.
To hush up the secret in her married mother's middle-class family, she was put up for adoption.

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