to adopt a course

  • 1adopt another course of action — take another mode of action …

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  • 2Adopt a Sailor — is a program offered by the USO [http://www.uso.org] . Anyone can adopt a sailor while he is on shore leave. You can offer to feed him a home cooked meal, do his laundry or offering a home away from home. Adopt a sailor understands the sacrifices …

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  • 3adopt — ► VERB 1) legally take (another s child) and bring it up as one s own. 2) choose to take up or follow (an option or course of action). 3) Brit. choose as a candidate for office. 4) assume (an attitude or position). 5) formally approve or accept.… …

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  • 4adopt — [ə däpt′] vt. [L adoptare < ad , to + optare, to choose] 1. to choose and bring into a certain relationship; specif., to take into one s own family by legal process and raise as one s own child 2. to take up and use (an idea, a practice, etc.) …

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  • 5adopt — verb Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French adopter, from Latin adoptare, from ad + optare to choose Date: 1500 transitive verb 1. to take by choice into a relationship; especially to take voluntarily (a child of… …

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  • 6course — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 complete series of lessons or lectures ADJECTIVE ▪ computer, psychology, Spanish, etc. ▪ crash, intensive ▪ short …

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  • 7adopt — adopter, n. /euh dopt /, v.t. 1. to choose or take as one s own; make one s own by selection or assent: to adopt a nickname. 2. to take and rear (the child of other parents) as one s own child, specifically by a formal legal act. 3. to take or… …

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  • 8adopt — verb 1 child ADVERB ▪ legally ▪ The child has now been legally adopted. PHRASES ▪ have sb adopted ▪ She was forced to have her baby adopted. 2 take and use s …

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  • 9course — 1. noun 1) the island was not far off our course Syn: route, way, track, direction, tack, path, line, trail, trajectory, bearing, heading, orbit 2) the course of history Syn …

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  • 10course — 1. noun 1) the island was not far off our course Syn: route, way, track, path, line, trail, trajectory, bearing, heading 2) the best course to adopt Syn: procedure, plan (of a …

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