Adopt vs Enactment - What's the difference?
adopt | enactment |
(with relationship specified) To take by choice into relationship, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.
(with relationship implied by context) To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
(with relationship implied by context) To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
(with relationship implied by context) To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.(rfex)
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To select and take or approve.
The act of enacting, or the state of being enacted.
:The actors' powerful enactment of the play was breathtaking.
:The enactment of this law will be a great step backward for our country.
(legal) A piece of legislation that has been properly authorized by a legislative body.
:The enactments passed by the council that year included sweeping reforms.
As a verb adopt
is (with relationship specified) to take by choice into relationship, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.As a noun enactment is
the act of enacting, or the state of being enacted.adopt
English
Verb
(en verb)- A friend of mine recently adopted a Chinese baby girl found on the streets of Beijing.
- We're going to adopt a Dalmatian.
- This supermarket chain adopts several families every Yuletide, providing them with money and groceries for the holidays.
- to adopt the view or policy of another
- These resolutions were adopted .