Concur vs Adopt - What's the difference?
concur | adopt |
To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to have a common opinion; to coincide; to correspond.
To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help towards a common object or effect.
(obsolete) To run together; to meet.
(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.
As verbs the difference between concur and adopt
is that concur is to unite or agree (in action or opinion); to have a common opinion; to coincide; to correspond while adopt is to take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.concur
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(concurr)Synonyms
* acquiesce * agreeAntonyms
* disagree * dissentReferences
* *adopt
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(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 .
