Synonym: acceptance, acceptation, borrowing, espousal. Similar words: option, adopt, AND operation, reception, exception, perception, conception, corruption. Meaning: [-pʃn] 
n. 1. the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception 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 appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source.
n. 1. the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception 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 appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source. 
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31) Everything about Shanti's adoption was against accepted practice.
32) The demand for such babies is so high that some adoption agencies have difficulty meeting even a fraction of it.
33) Why not respect the intention implied by the choice of impermanent materials and the adoption of quick and casual techniques?
34) Workplans are being drafted at present and will be finalised after adoption of the programme.
35) Harris said little, if any, qualitative changes in foster care, residential care, and adoption had been made.
36) These theoretical problems are most visible and at their most intractable in the area of fostering and adoption policy.
37) Adoption is expensive: fees and travel costs can add up to $ 20, 000 a child.
38) Nevertheless, in two cases in the separated group, the baby was given up for adoption because neither parent wanted custody.
39) Its adoption, however, was to be delayed until the new Constitution came into effect.
40) Further, supporters of the bill seem ignorant of the dangers of the path they are taking adoption policy.
41) Such action represents the adoption of aspects of a second air pollution control strategy - namely, the emission standards strategy.
42) The Czechoslovakian coup did two things absolutely necessary for the adoption of the containment policy.
43) The hearing would decide whether the state should terminate the rights of the biological parents and put the child up for adoption.
44) Some grandparents were acquired through adoption, or through remarriage following family break-up.
45) Adoption of this system has not only avoided the need to employ at least two clerical assistants.
46) Much of their success came from their adoption by skinheads.
47) Adoption is different from novation and also appears to be distinguishable from merely acting as though the contract were binding on the company.
48) Of those available for adoption, 40 percent are black,[sentencedict.com] although blacks represent only about 13 percent of the general population.
49) No doubt there will be would-be adopters who are likely to find the possibility of inclusive adoption threatening and not wish to proceed.
50) Moreover, Boyle also demonstrates that the Security Council violated its own charter through the adoption of Resolution 731.
51) Adoption of Technology Standards Adoption of standards is a major barrier to the I-way construction.
52) Another is that its method of valuation was too complex and this would detract from its widespread adoption.
53) Again no mention was made of the possibility of making an adoption order with a condition of access.
54) Health education will have to revolve around the adoption of safer practices.
55) Reargument was largely devoted to the circumstances surrounding the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868.
56) The Government proposes to implement a major review of adoption law in the New Year.
57) The widespread adoption of a rigorous and effective pre-trial review?
58) In other cases,[www.Sentencedict.com] generating a demand requires the emplacement of an infrastructure of maintenance for the successful adoption of innovations.
59) Also included is the artificial adoption of dead languages for nationalistic purposes.
60) The Community has kept apace with the timetable set for adoption of the legislation by the end of 1992.
More similar words: option, adopt, AND operation, reception, exception, perception, conception, corruption, assumption, description, consumption, prescription, optimistic, bumptious, notion, action, nation, motion, portion, mention, section, edition, auction, question, fiction, reduction, function, zonation, donation, reaction.