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• 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 tax credit — Adoption Tax CreditSection 23 of the Internal Revenue code offers a credit for “qualified adoption expenses” paid or incurred by individual taxpayers. The credit is nonrefundable, thus, it can only decrease a taxpayers tax liability to zero.… …   Wikipedia

• 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 (film) — Adoption Video release poster Directed by Márta Mészáros Starring Katali …   Wikipedia

• related — related, cognate, kindred, allied, affiliated can all mean connected by or as if by close family ties. Related, when referred to persons, usually implies consanguinity, but sometimes implies connection by marriage {the royal families in Europe… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• Adoption — For other uses, see Adoption (disambiguation). Sister Irene of New York Foundling Hospital with children. Sister Irene is among the pioneers of modern adoption, establishing a system to board out children rather than institutionalize them.… …   Wikipedia

• Cultural variations in adoption — Adoption is an arrangement by which a child whose biological parents are unable to care for it is adopted and given the same legal and social status as though he/she were the biological child of the adoptive parents. For example, under a system… …   Wikipedia

• adoption — noun 1. the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception (Freq. 2) its adoption by society the proposal found wide acceptance • Syn: ↑acceptance, ↑acceptation, ↑espousal • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• adoption of child — The means by which the legal relationship of parent and child between persons who are not so related by nature is established or created; the taking into one s family of the child of another as son or daughter and heir, and conferring upon it a… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• Related — infobox television show name = Related caption = The Sorelli sisters L R: Marjee, Ginnie, Rose, Ann format = Comedy drama runtime = 45 min. (per episode) creator = Liz Tuccillo starring = Jennifer Esposito Kiele Sanchez Lizzy Caplan Laura… …   Wikipedia

• adoption — Synonyms and related words: Americanization, acceptance, acculturation, admission, affiliation, appropriation, arrogation, assimilation, assumption, borrowed plumes, circumcision, citizenship by naturalization, citizenship papers, colonization,… …   Moby Thesaurus