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adopt

Verb A2 – Elementary

To legally take another person's child into your family as your own, or to start using a new method or idea.

"They decided to adopt a child after years of trying to start a family."

"Adopt" is also used more broadly to mean choosing to follow a plan, as in "adopt a new strategy."