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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121) There was none of the careful preparation and gradual introduction which usually precedes the adoption of a child beyond infancy.
122) The Act allowed the retention of adoption of such titles simply as a further concession to local sentiment.
123) Yet they could not shake off the idea of an adoption, and finally succumbed.
124) Yet, to propose the possibility of adoption by such a couple strikes a discordant note.
125) They argue that this will seriously undermine the adoption of the Biosafety Protocol developed under the Convention on Biodiversity.
126) The adoption of the Constitution resulted from a compromise that overlooked the problem of human bondage.
127) The purpose of this paper is to examine further the issue of open adoption or adoption with contact.
128) For the adoption, the Millers provided references and numerous other documents.
129) Also, in 1974, an adoption Act made it possible for couples of mixed denominational or religious origin to adopt.
130) She saw the 1975 Act's emphasis on adoption as positive.
131) Reporting in 1935 it advocated the fullest adoption of the planned distribution of industry and population based on garden city development.
132) We arrived at Sedgefield Parish Hall, standing room only, just as his adoption meeting finished.
133) It is this process of socialisation - the gradual adoption of values and norms associated with social roles - which generates ageism.
134) Our Priest agreed, and the necessary arrangements were made for the boy's adoption and transfer to Eire.
135) Read in studio An adoption agency with a difference has been set up to help find parents for orphan lambs.
136) Systematic Cleaning Systematic cleaning is the adoption of the right combination of energy for the circumstances with regard to time and cost.
137) So, to the moral case for the general adoption of the form we may now add the practical imperative.
138) But as Table 2-1 shows, the adoption of free-market develop-ment models has raised their average growth rates.
139) It forced a change of direction in the 1950s and the adoption, under Davis, of good housekeeping policies.
140) It is effective for accounting periods ending on or after 23 August 1993 although earlier adoption is encouraged.
141) The merchants soon managed to place their sons and daughters in aristocratic families, infiltrating them by marriage and adoption.
142) Adoption Adoption involves the legal transfer of responsibility for a child from its natural parents.
143) Mr. Gummer My Department offers a number of grants to farmers that encourage the adoption of environmentally sound practices.
144) It hopes to release its first performance accounting standards, for general adoption, by the mid-199Os.
145) The push for interracial adoption is redundant and behind the curve.
146) Their adoption is, however, a matter of choice, in line with Council strategy to keep regulation to a minimum.http://sentencedict.com/adoption.html
147) Animal Adoption Visitors may adopt an animal and thus make a contribution towards the cost of that animal's upkeep.
148) The other reservation concerns the long-term effects of adoption, which it is thought may damage personality and identity.
149) But even harder to make are decisions about adoption when Marian knows that she is severing families in a permanent way.
150) We may note initially the adoption by high culture of the objects of popular culture.
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.