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词汇 adoption
释义 adoption
noun
uk /əˈdɒp.ʃən/ us /əˈdɑːp.ʃən/

adoptionnoun (TAKING CHILD)


B2[ C or U ]
the act of legally taking a child to be taken care of as your own: 领养,收养
put someone up for adoptionShe was homeless and had to put her child up for adoption (= ask for the child to be taken by someone else as their own).她无家可归,只好让别人收养她的孩子。
The last ten years have seen a dramatic fall in the number of adoptions.过去10年中收养孩子的人数明显减少了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Parenting & caring for children
adopt
adoptable
adopted
adoptee
adoptive
child-rearing
childless
childlessness
childmind
childminder
kinship carer
lawnmower parent
looked-after
milestone
mothering
snowploughing
stay-at-home
swaddle
unadoptable
unadopted

adoptionnoun (STARTING TO USE)


[ U ]
accepting or starting to use something new: 接受;采用;采纳
Several suggestions have been offered for adoption by the panel.总共提出了几种建议以供专家小组采纳。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Using and misusing
adopt
avail
avail yourself of something
be (of) (any/some) useidiom
be/go heavy on somethingidiom
exhaust
go into something
go through
gobble something up
make capital out of somethingidiom
max
spare
spent
swallow
tap
turn to someone/something
turn/use something to good accountidiom
unblock
underuse
underused

adoptionnoun (CHOOSING)


[ U ]
choosing or taking something as your own: 选择
England was Conrad's country of adoption (= the country where he had chosen to live).英国是康拉德移居的国家。
The adoption of a woman candidate was seen as controversial.选择一位女候选人被视为一件很有争议的事。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Taking and choosing
adopt
adopted
appoint
bags I...idiom
be between the devil and the deep blue seaidiom
be your best betidiom
cull
faute de mieux
favoured
filterable
first choice
go for someone
picker
Robin Hood
select
selection
selective
selectively
skim
you pays your money and you takes your choice/chanceidiom

adoption | American Dictionary


adoption
noun
us/əˈdɑp·ʃən/

adoptionnoun (TAKING CHILD)


[ C/U ]
the act of taking another person's child legally into your family to raise as your own child:
[ C ]The agency handles about a hundred adoptions a year.

adoptionnoun (STARTING)


[ U ]
the act of accepting or beginning to use something:
The adoption of a different insurance company caused a lot of confusion.

adoption | Business English


adoption
noun[ U ]
uk /əˈdɒpʃən/us
the process of starting to use a new method, system, law, etc.:
The adoption of tougher credit standards by mortgage lenders is making it hard for borrowers to qualify for new loans.
MARKETING
the process of starting to use a new product or service:
Mass adoption of broadband and social networking have made finding customers easier.
Misunderstanding of how these health plans work is preventing widespread adoption.
There has been a huge adoption rate for self-service check-in in the airline industry.
internet/e-commerce/technology adoption

Examples of adoption


adoption
More than 60% conducted independent trials with one or more technologies, with 50% of these trials resulting in permanent adoptions.
However, conflicts over surrogacy contracts, and even over traditional adoptions, have demonstrated the limits of contracts in predicting the parties' emotional responses to the resulting child.
In raising the implications for policy, we will not presume to explicate all of the overlapping, diverging, and conflicting concerns of the constituents in international adoptions.
Romanian adoptions in a worldwide context.
We must aim for the same high level of protection and benefits for the child as in domestic adoptions.
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There we were given guarantees that the adoptions were to go ahead and, moreover, that they were going to introduce all the legislation needed.
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From 21,000 adoptions 20 years ago, the figure was down to less than 6,000 last year.
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Most intercountry adoptions go through the proper channels.
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Although that does not involve large numbers, on average, five or six such adoptions take place every week.
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Has he come across evidence of institutionalised prejudice in intercountry adoptions?
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There must be a level playing field and good practice in all adoptions.
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We must strike a balance between delay and rigour in national and intercountry adoptions.
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If this brings about successful adoptions and happy homes for children, what is wrong with it?
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Charging is permitted, so no local authority should be deterred by a lack of resources from undertaking work in connection with possible inter-country adoptions.
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One would not have a policy of seeking such adoptions.
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Collocations withadoption


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adoption agency
These are strengths that can be built upon by adoptionagency and other professionals.
adoption procedure
We believe that this may lead to irregularities in the new constitution's adoptionprocedure.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
adoption proceedings
The question of where the adoptionproceedings should be taken then arose.
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