adoption

n. 採用、採納、收養

學術名詞

• 採用：農業推廣學、管理學
• 收養：經濟學

英文釋義

1. the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception
2. a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)
3. the appropriation (of ideas or words etc.) from another source