To take another person's child into your own family and legally become its parent.
ad+opt
Shared component: opt · choose
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opt
choose
Related forms: opt · 10 words in this dictionary
Related words
Shared components, not spelling prefixessomething that you can choose to have or do; the freedom to choose what you do
opt+ion
Shared component: opt · choose
Available to be chosen but not compulsory.
opt+ion+al
Shared component: opt · choose
To add someone to a group, committee, etc., often by the agreement of the existing members.
co+opt
Shared component: opt · choose
to take up or start to use or follow (an idea, method, or course of action)
ad+opt+ing
Shared component: opt · choose
The act of legally taking another person's child into your family to raise as your own.
ad+opt+ion
Shared component: opt · choose
optExtended relation
To make a choice or decision from a range of possibilities.
Extended relation: opt · choose
adoptedExtended relation
legally taken into a family to be raised as one's own child.
ad+opt+ed
Extended relation: opt · choose
opt-outExtended relation
an instance of choosing not to participate in something
opt+out
Extended relation: opt · choose
co-optationExtended relation
The act of assimilating, neutralizing, or winning over a minority element by absorption into an established group or culture.
co+opt+ation
Extended relation: opt · choose