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▸ noun: The state of being adopted; the acceptance of a child of other parents as if he or she were one's own child.
▸ noun: An admission to an institution, for example a hospital, clinic, mental asylum.
▸ noun: The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance.
▸ noun: (computing) The transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system.
▸ noun: (theology) An act of divine grace by which the redeemed in Christ are admitted to the privileges of the sons of God.
▸ noun: (chess, slang) Ten consecutive wins against an opponent.
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borrowing,
acceptance,
adopt,
readoption,
intercountry,
adopter,
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adoptive,
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universal,
rapid,
early,
formal,
final,
transracial,
open,
immediate,
international
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