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What does adoptive mean?

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Adjective
  1. Related through adoption; more generally, relating to adoption.
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She gleefully portrays the dual roles of Rose's flaky adoptive mother Claire and Rose's native godmother Maddie.
Now many of those couples are helping their adoptive children uncover their cultural roots.
The alternative is a private arrangement with the birth mother and the adoptive parents.
My adoptive mother gave me a copy of his obituary and three pictures of my father and told me the story.
An adoption order transfers the child's legal relationship from the original family to the new adoptive family.
We spent most of the session talking about her relationship with her adoptive father, Eric.

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