收养 — meaning in English

English meaning

• adopt verb To legally take a child into your family as your own.
• espouse verb To adopt a belief, cause or way of life and openly support it.
• foster verb To raise or care for a child who is not biologically one's own.

Senses

收养 is used for these senses in English:

• adopt To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.
• espouse (transitive, figurative, modern usage) To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).
• foster (transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.

adopt — full definition

1. verb To legally take a child into your family as your own.
2. verb To take a pet or cause under your care, or to start using an idea, method, or practice.

espouse — full definition

1. verb To adopt a belief, cause or way of life and openly support it.
2. verb To marry someone.

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