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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271) The practice of adoption goes back at least as far as Moses, who, the Bible says, was adopted by the daughter of the Pharaoh of Egypt.
272) Her husband hesitated to complete the formal requirements for adoption.
273) The laws at the habitual residence of the adoptee at the time of adoption or at the locality of the court shall apply to the termination of the adoptive relation.
274) Consequently the PCE value of vehicle conversion factor is determined by the adoption of time and headway. Sentencedict.com
275) And it's a surprising turnabout in a country in which government red-tape, poverty and traditional attitudes long combined to discourage adoption.
276) They also demonstrate the most successful processes behind language change – wordplay, blending, and the adoption of foreign terms are all there.
277) Besides adoption of the right RC circuit, attention must be payed on optimum circuit connecting, as well as proper saturable reactor seriesly connected in the circuit in order to suppress overvoltage.
278) The specific step and process are introduced in detail with the adoption of this method in the design of the automatic slide fastener assembly machine.
279) The adoption of double - hand operation and dragging plate ensures the convenience and safety for operators.
280) Assuming that future technology innovation with random occurrence lead decline of the value of current new technology, this paper gives the valuation and adoption decision models of new technology.
281) For most enterprise software, comprehensive documentation and user adoption guides is nothing new. In fact, it's standard operating procedure.
282) The laws at the habitual residence of the adopter at the time of adoption shall apply to the validity of adoption.
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.