Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which adopts.
- n. An apparatus for the rapid leveling of a compass, consisting of a spindle, ball, and ball-socket.
Wiktionary
- n. one who adopts
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who adopts.
- n. (Chem.) A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who adopts a child of other parents as his or her own child
Etymologies
- adopt + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“As one of two social workers who regularly see Jamal (he also has a childcare visitor), Hooper has the task of finding a long-term adopter for the boy.”
“-- The pain of being an early adopter is you often end up collateral damage.”
“Problems of implementation are much more serious when the adopter is an organization rather than an individual.”
“As a result, site-visits to observe an innovation in use by an adopter are the main channels of diffusion.”
“If you are an early adopter, that is the risk you run," he says.”
“Problems of implementation are usually more serious when the adopter is an organization rather than an individual.”
“I asked my Dad, a habitual early adopter who swears he’s been singing Bradley’s praises since before it was cool. “He’s too big for his britches in the most endearing way, he said.”
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bilby "'Foreign citizens who are single have no right to adopt children... and the age difference between the adopter and the child cannot be more than 45 years,' family, youth and sports minister Mr Pavlenko said."
- Elton 'cannot adopt in Ukraine', bbc.co.uk, 14 September 2009. Sep 14, 2009