Synonym: assume, choose, reject. Similar words: adoption, opt, AND operation, option, optimistic, helicopter, head on, a load of. Meaning: [ə'dɒpt] 
v. 1. choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans 2. take up and practice as one's own 3. take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities 4. take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect 5. take into one's family 6. put into dramatic form 7. take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own.
v. 1. choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans 2. take up and practice as one's own 3. take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities 4. take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect 5. take into one's family 6. put into dramatic form 7. take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own. 
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61. In the meantime, the Government should adopt a far more dynamic approach to fiscal policy.
62. Without the advantage of mobile clearinghouse personnel, the majority of clearinghouses have no option but to adopt this method.
63. Without it individuals would have had a choice as to which of the acceptable solutions to adopt.
64. Procedure within the financial accounts Many larger companies adopt the procedure of raising a debit note for any errors on invoices.
65. Whatever blend of approaches you adopt, remember to stick to the ten new management principles.
66. Developers were obliged to adopt a highly active role in locating land.
67. After all, one does not have to adopt a Marxist method in order to make statements about poverty, injustice or exploitation.
68. Can a school board adopt a policy prohibiting dancing at school?
69. Feldt also is very quick to adopt new, effective ideas, Papp said.
70. The Society was substantially unsuccessful in its aim of persuading other charities to adopt the same methods.
71. Indeed, Tivoli says it may even adopt the Object Model as a subset of its own future offerings.
72. Its state legislators refused to adopt public accommodations laws for their counties.
73. It is essential that these countries, too, adopt policies that will help to protect the Ozone Layer.
74. They attempt to adopt adult word forms and use them with increasing consistency from one occasion to the next.
75. The Centre for Corporate Strategy and Change also tends to implicitly adopt this model.
76. The board hopes the Federal Aviation Administration will urge the airlines to adopt such measures.
77. From the beginning Nizan was quite clearly convinced of the necessity to adopt a strictly orthodox party line.
78. Former rival Steve Forbes has urged Dole to adopt the flat tax idea that was central to Forbes' presidential campaign.
79. Their accounts look very different from the nationalized industries because they adopt budgetary accounting and also because they adopt fund accounting.
80. She had hoped to get pregnant, but when she failed,[www.Sentencedict.com] she and her husband decided to adopt.
81. We will ensure that all parts of government adopt a strategic approach to the employment and development of women staff.
82. The couple, both active members of the powerful Church of Scientology, are still keen to adopt.
83. Here Durkheim took a leaf out of Maine's book and decided to adopt law as an objective measure of social solidarity.
84. He gave an undertaking that his government would not adopt aggressive measures in future.
85. We are no longer in the least likely to adopt such a Plato-like attitude towards the needs of industry or the economy.
86. The usual procedure is to adopt a more flexible attitude.
87. Uncle Khan later told me that it was his wife who had been determined to adopt me as her own.
88. My decision to adopt this method is not an arbitrary one.
89. Having to adopt the fast-track method made life difficult for all three.
90. If the line were deleted then subsequent roles would all adopt the wrong names.
More similar words: adoption, opt, AND operation, option, optimistic, helicopter, head on, a load of, ahead of, spread out, instead of, head office, adolescent, ambassador, ahead of time, incommunicado, ahead of schedule.