adopt
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- (transitive) If you adopt something, you choose and begin to use it instead of what you used in the past.
- Now that we know they work, it is important that these policies be adopted by other districts.
- The outcome depends entirely on the approach you adopt.
- The technology developed in Asia has since been adopted by the telephone systems in Japan and much of the rest of Western Europe.
- When she moved out west, she adopted a new name.
- (transitive & intransitive) If you adopt a child, you make them part of your own family.
- They finally quit trying to have their own child and ended up adopting a baby girl.