adoption

adoption
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 with the intention of continuing to buy and use it:

• More than 300 companies have adopted the software.

— adoption noun [countable, uncountable] :

• the adoption of sophisticated production techniques

• adoption of new textbooks by the education department

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adoption UK US /əˈdɒpʃən/ noun [U]
► 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.

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Misunderstanding of how these health plans work is preventing widespread adoption.

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There has been a huge adoption rate for self-service check-in in the airline industry.

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internet/e-commerce/technology adoption


Financial and business terms. 2012.

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  • ADOPTION — ADOPTION, taking another s child as one s own. Alleged Cases of Adoption in the Bible The evidence for adoption in the Bible is so equivocal that some have denied it was practiced in the biblical period. (A) GENESIS 15:2–3. Being childless, Abram …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • Adoption — (von lat. adoptio) ist die rechtliche Begründung eines Eltern Kind Verhältnisses zwischen dem Annehmenden und dem Kind ohne Rücksicht auf die biologische Abstammung. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Historisches 2 Rechtslage in einzelnen Ländern und… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • adoption — I (acceptance) noun acknowledgment, admission, approbation, approval, assimilation, assumption, attachment to, choice, co optation, election, embracement, espousal, favorable reception, ratification, reception, recognition, sanction, selection… …   Law dictionary

  • Adoption — • Adoption, as defined in canon law, is foreign to the Bible Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Adoption     Adoption     † …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • adoption —    Adoption was a fairly common practice in ancient Mesopotamia, as revealed by the survival of a number of adoption contracts and other related documents, mostly dating from the second and first millennia b.c. A common reason for adopting a… …   Ancient Mesopotamia dictioary

  • Adoption — Adoption, Annahme an Kindesstatt. Im deutschen Recht unbekannt, ebenso im größeren Theile der Schweiz. Dagegen durchs römische Recht, soweit es. Geltung erlangte, eingeführt. Der Adoptirte wird Descendent, d.h. Kind oder Enkel; an Brudersstelle u …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • Adoption — A*dop tion, n. [L. adoptio, allied to adoptare to adopt: cf. F. adoption.] 1. The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one s own child. [1913 Webster] 2. Admission to a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • ADOPTION —    Adoption is known from legal contracts and law codes dating from the second and first millennia B.C. The most common form was to take an individual to be a son or daughter, but sibling and parental adoption was not unknown. Written documents,… …   Historical Dictionary of Mesopotamia

  • adoption — ADOPTION. s. f. Action d adopter. Tibère n étoit fils d Auguste que par adoption. [b]f♛/b] Il se dit aussi au sens de Choix, préférence. Je ne sais pas ce qui a pu motiver une adoption aussi bizarre. C est son goût d adoption …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798

  • adoption — Adoption. s. f. Action d adopter. Il est mon fils par adoption. nous sommes les enfans de Dieu par adoption …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

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