adopt
US: /əˈdɑpt/
UK: /ɐdˈɒpt/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
adopt /ə'dɔpt/- ngoại động từ
- nhận làm con nuôi; nhận làm bố mẹ nuôi
- an adopted child: đứa con nuôi
- he adopted the old man as his father: anh ấy nhận ông cụ làm bố nuôi
- theo, làm theo
- to a adopt new method of teaching: theo phương pháp giảng dạy mới
- chọn (nghề, người cho một chức vị)
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) chấp nhận và thực hiện
- to adopt a proposal: chấp nhận và thực hiện một đề nghị
- nhận làm con nuôi; nhận làm bố mẹ nuôi
Advanced English dictionary
+ verbchild
1 to take sb else's child into your family and become its legal parent(s): [V] a campaign to encourage childless couples to adopt + [VN] to adopt a child + She was forced to have her baby adopted.
Compare: FOSTER
method
2 [VN] to start to use a particular method or to show a particular attitude towards sb/sth: All three teams adopted different approaches to the problem.
suggestion
3 [VN] to formally accept a suggestion or policy by voting: to adopt a resolution + The council is expected to adopt the new policy at its next meeting.
new name / country
4 [VN] to choose a new name, a country, a custom, etc. and begin to use it as your own: to adopt a name / title / language + Early Christians in Europe adopted many of the practices of the older, pagan religions.
way of behaving
5 [VN] (formal) to use a particular manner, way of speaking, expression, etc: He adopted an air of indifference.
candidate
6 [VN] ~ sb (as sth) (BrE, politics) to choose sb as a candidate in an election or as a representative: She was adopted as parliamentary candidate for Wood Green.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 take (in), accept, take or accept as one's own:
Carol and her husband have adopted two children.
2 take, take up or on or over, embrace, espouse; arrogate, appropriate:
All Hugh's ideas are adopted from others - he's never had one of his own.
Collocation
1 child
ADV.
legally
The child has now been legally adopted.
PHRASES
have sb adopted
She was forced to have her baby adopted.
2 take and use sth
ADV.
formally, officially
The policy has not yet been formally adopted.
VERB + ADOPT
tend to | decide to | be forced to
PREP.
towards
the policies employers adopt towards the labour force
Concise dictionary
adopts|adopted|adoptingə'dɒptverb
+choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
+take up and practice as one's own
+take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
+take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
+take into one's family
+put into dramatic form
+take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
