Ratified vs Adopted - What's the difference?
ratified | adopted |
(ratify)
To give formal consent to; make officially valid.
(adopt)
(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 ratified and adopted
is that ratified is (ratify) while adopted is (adopt).ratified
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Verb
(head)ratify
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(en-verb)Synonyms
* (give formal consent to): approveadopted
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Verb
(head)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 .