adoption




adoption - noun

  • the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception
  • 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)
  • the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source
  • adoption - thesaurus

    acceptance   acceptation   borrowing   espousal