adopting

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Then see your eyes light up as people are adopting your offering and giving you their thanks.

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Quick take

To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of adopting gathered in one view.

verb

To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.

verb

To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

verb

To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for adopting.

verb

To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.

verb

To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

verb

To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.

verb

To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally.

Example sentences

Then see your eyes light up as people are adopting your offering and giving you their thanks.

That experience should have manifested into extreme caution when adopting and implementing anything new, open and complex.

One thing that people are adopting from FP is to limit what is mutable, and when possible make state explicit.

Yet there was huge opposition to adopting this technology in table saws.

In clr land we've already seen c# adopting a fair few functional things - I think largely ahead of Java.

Reports of Wall Street adopting it for settlement purposes seem slightly optimistic.

Additionally, companies adopting high quality components makes stuff more robust over time.

If businesses fall too far behind adopting modern software/features their employees are familiar with using on personal devices they will have to accept reduced productivity.

IE had trouble adopting, it had the wrong balance of features.

I would think by now everybody knew that you had to wait at least one year before adopting a new Microsoft OS.

I advocate figuring out what your project needs, adopting that, and then continually adapting as the project changes, as any project will.

The adoption issue is a chicken and egg problem: long-term viability depends on people adopting it, and people want to adopt tools reliable in the long-term.

Quote examples

Adopting a co-founder model eliminates some of the problems with the ISC model, but you still need to have some safeguards against the "he just stole my work and took the profit" scenario.