adoptions
- 1Plural of adoption.
Court records show a sharp rise in adoptions over the last decade.
The new policy made international adoptions far more difficult.
Note
Counting cases is what the plural does: adoption is both a mass noun for the practice and a count noun for each instance, and only the count use takes the -s. So it serves for children taken into families and equally for methods, proposals or systems taken up, as in several adoptions of a new technique. For the practice in general, the singular without an article usually reads better: support for adoption.
adoptions is a form of adoption
adoption, noun: The acceptance of another couple's or person's child as one's own, and the resulting state of being so accepted. Full entry
- Forms
- adoptionadoptions plural
- Spelling
- adoption → adoptions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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