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61adapt / adept / adopt — Adapt means to adjust : Minnie Miles quickly adapted to working 20 miles away from home. Adept means skilled : Lucille is adept at speaking languages. Adopt means to accept as your own : It was difficult to adopt only one puppy from the… …
62adapt / adept / adopt — Adapt means to adjust : Minnie Miles quickly adapted to working 20 miles away from home. Adept means skilled : Lucille is adept at speaking languages. Adopt means to accept as your own : It was difficult to adopt only one puppy from the… …
63adapt / adept / adopt — Adapt means to adjust : Minnie Miles quickly adapted to working 20 miles away from home. Adept means skilled : Lucille is adept at speaking languages. Adopt means to accept as your own : It was difficult to adopt only one puppy from the… …
64contract to adopt — A contract to adopt another as a child of the latter which is usually ineffective to complete a legal adoption in itself, but, even if not consummated and given legal effect by adoption proceedings during the lifetime of the adopting parent, may …
65quasi-adopt — v.t. * * * …
66low profile, adopt a — Refuse to make great fuss. Play down an issue. Remain calm and uncommitted …
67Of two possible constructions, adopt the one which will save and not destroy — A canon of construction. Anniston Mfg. Co. v Davis, 301 US 337, 81 L Ed 1143, 57 S Ct 816 …
68quasi-adopt — v.t …
69adoption — adopt a‧dopt [əˈdɒpt ǁ əˈdɑːpt] noun [transitive] 1. if you adopt a new method, process etc, you start to use it: • All US companies are required to adopt the new standards. 2. MARKETING to start using a product, especially a new product, usually …
70Adopted — Adopt A*dopt , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adopted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Adopting}.] [L. adoptare; ad + optare to choose, desire: cf. F. adopter. See {Option}.] 1. To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take… …