Adoptable

a·dopt (

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tr.v. a·dopt·ed, a·dopt·ing, a·dopts

1. To take into one's family through legal means and raise as one's own child.

a. To take and follow (a course of action, for example) by choice or assent: adopt a new technique.

b. To take up and make one's own: adopt a new idea.

3. To take on or assume: adopted an air of importance.

4. To vote to accept: adopt a resolution.

5. To choose as standard or required in a course: adopt a new line of English textbooks.

[Middle English adopten, from Old French adopter, from Latin adoptre : ad-, ad- + optre, to choose.]

a·dopta·bili·ty n.

a·dopta·ble adj.

a·dopter n.

a·doption n.

Usage Note: Children are adopted by parents, and one normally refers to an adopted child but to adoptive parents, families, and homes. When describing places, one can use either adopted or adoptive: She enjoys living in her adopted country. Detroit is their adoptive city.

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Adj.

adoptable - suitable or eligible for adoption; "a shortage of adoptable babies"

unadoptable - difficult to place in an adoptive home

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at San Isidro Place, should help to dispel some myths about canines, said Nina Chiotasso of the Espanola Valley Humane Society, one of four animal-welfare groups that will be bringing adoptable animals to the event.

FIND A FOREVER FRIEND AND LEARN CANINE SAFETY by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)

We offer a chromogenic medium, Spectra MRSA that is a ready-to-use labor-saving test easily adoptable in any healthcare facility to enable continuous surveillance of all patients for MRSA colonization.

The fight against MRSA by Thomson, Andy / Medical Laboratory Observer

She said: "We have advised the developer of the work what they need to do to bring the network up to adoptable standards and are awaiting confirmation this work has been completed.

Meeting to discuss Rhoose flood fears by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)

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