adopts

Verb

• choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
• take up and practice as one's own
• take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
• take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
• take into one's family
• put into dramatic form
• take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
• third-person singular simple present indicative of adopt

Synonyms

acquire, adopt, assume, borrow, dramatise, dramatize, embrace, espouse, follow, sweep up, take, take in, take on, take over, take up