"adopt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

adopt verbo

adopt + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 118
adopt rules • adopt measures • adopt standards • adopt methods • adopt technology • adopt laws • adopt practices • adopt one's son • ...
verbo + adopt
Kolokacji: 26
decide to adopt • want to adopt • forced to adopt • begin to adopt • begin adopting • ...
adopt + preposición
Kolokacji: 34
adopted by • adopted from • adopted during • adopted after • adopted under • ...
adopt + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 64
adopt unanimously • widely adopted • officially adopted • formally adopted • eventually adopt • quickly adopted • later adopted • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 15
(3) eventually, finally
Kolokacji: 2
(5) legally, illegally
Kolokacji: 2
2. illegally adopted = nielegalnie zaadoptować illegally adopted
  • Hundreds of children are being illegally adopted or put up for trade.
  • She put a notice on the Internet and has been contacted by four people who believe they may also have been illegally adopted.
  • A total of five children whose parents disappeared after having been kidnapped by military death squads were illegally adopted, the spokesman said.
  • Indeed, General Electric has been successfully sued in the past on illegally adopting a rival's technology.
  • Among the "disappeared" were pregnant mothers whose babies, once born, were then illegally adopted by military families.
  • It would be a constitution adopted illegally.
  • Her new husband, Martin Guest, arranged for them to illegally adopt a daughter, whom they named Lily.
  • Her mother illegally adopted her because the day she saw Meri, she felt pulled to her by magic.
  • After being unable to conceive a child, Billy presented Victoria with a baby girl that he adopted illegally, whom they named Lucy.
  • When they finally meet with James Reardon, he "tells" them Jonah was illegally adopted from a foreign country and might be deported.
(6) generally, broadly
Kolokacji: 2
(10) simply, most
Kolokacji: 2
(12) readily, duly
Kolokacji: 2
(13) successfully, happily
Kolokacji: 2
(14) frequently, occasionally
Kolokacji: 2
(15) briefly, shortly
Kolokacji: 2

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