Definitions for adopts

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adopts a·dopt

Spelling: [uh-dopt]

IPA: /əˈdɒpt/

Adopts is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in adopts (adopst).

Definitions for adopts

Verb phrases

1. adopt out, to place (a child) for adoption:

verb (used with object)

1. to choose or take as one's own; make one's own by selection or assent:
2. to take and rear (the child of other parents) as one's own child, specifically by a formal legal act.
3. to take or receive into any kind of new relationship:
4. to select as a basic or required textbook or series of textbooks in a course.
5. to vote to accept:
6. to accept or act in accordance with (a plan, principle, etc.).

Origin of adopts

1490-1500; (Middle French adopter) Latin adoptāre, equivalent to ad- ad- + optāre to opt

Examples for adopts

Now Wisconsin is considering making it mandatory for parents who adopt overseas to have their children “re-adopted” in the state.

Wins such as Hobby Lobby, far from leading them to adopt a more relaxed posture, merely prove the need for more work.

Some of the most explosive opportunities could be based around things that the Western world seems reluctant to adopt.

Because he had come to live there was no reason why it should adopt him.

She seemed to take charge, to adopt me with the house, to accept and audit and vouch for us.

He would not adopt a nameless orphan, found with a poor goatherd of Phelle.

She's rather too old, and I'm rather too young to adopt her; but I daresay she would marry me.

She began to adopt a neorealist aesthetic, seeing the beauty in “imperfections.”

How many shootings will it take before we adopt common sense gun control?

I can hardly think that Parliament will adopt a different view.