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# adoption

«adoption» in Mova's school dictionary: **Taking a child into your family by law and becoming their…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (adoption, adoptions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Taking a child into your family by law and becoming their parent for ever. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoption/#m1)

2) Taking an animal from a shelter to give it a home: pet adoption. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoption/#m2)

3) Starting to use a new idea, rule or method: the adoption of a new timetable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoption/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories, adoption is a loving way families are made, and adopted children are as much part of the family as any child. Pet adoption from rescue shelters is common. In formal language it means a school or country starting a new plan. Phrases: put up for adoption, adoption agency, adopted child, pet adoption.

### examples

- My cousin joined our family through adoption. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoption/#x1)
- The shelter holds a pet adoption day every month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoption/#x2)
- Adoption makes the child a full member of the family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoption/#x3)
- The kitten is up for adoption. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoption/#x4)
- (formal) The adoption of the new rules took a year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoption/#x5)
- They celebrate the day of her adoption with a cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoption/#x6)

### note

Verb: adopt; adjective: adopted, adoptive (adoptive parents). Do not confuse adopt (take as your own) with adapt (change to fit). Countable for each case, uncountable for the idea.

### In the corpora

- [Adoption is when a child whose birth parents can't bring them up joins a new family for good.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/0/)
- [Adoption is made official by a judge in a family court.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/3/)
- [Mila gets a letter from her birth mum once a year, passed on through the adoption agency; this is called letterbox contact.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/10/)
- [Families made by adoption come in many shapes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/28/)
- [And every year on the day Zac's adoption became official, his family has pizza and a film.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/522-adoption/33/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «adoption» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adoption/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.