- Acceptance (of policy)
- Permanent fostering
- Taking on
- Taking up
- The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary
acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own
child.
- Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the
adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society
into another.
- The choosing and making that to be one's own which
originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.