0 the act of legally taking a child to be taken care of as your own:
1 accepting or starting to use something new:
Several suggestions have been offered for adoption by the panel.
2 choosing or taking something as your own:
The adoption of a woman candidate was seen as controversial.
3 the act of taking another person's child legally into your family to raise as your own child:
5 the process of starting to use a new method, system, law, etc.:
6 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
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.
There we were given guarantees that the adoptions were to go ahead and, moreover, that they were going to introduce all the legislation needed.
From 21,000 adoptions 20 years ago, the figure was down to less than 6,000 last year.
Most intercountry adoptions go through the proper channels.
