ADOPTED SON collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)
collocation in English
meanings of adopted and son
adopted
adjective
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/əˈdɒp.tɪd/us
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/əˈdɑːp.tɪd/
An adopted child has been legally taken by another family to be taken care of as their ...
son
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Examples of adopted son
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Often a woman head was immediately succeeded by her son, adopted son, or son-in-law.
A certain woman, probably a widow, entered a lawsuit against her male cousins, and adopted son (heir) and his wife.
Women were eventually to lose even this tenuous hold, when an adopted _son_-in-law was formally permitted to succeed as the head of the household.
For example, was there an initiation ceremony, a rite de passage, to become "the adopted son of a prominent ritual leader, and eventually a respected village council elder"?
An adopted son or daughter may, therefore, succeed to a holding.
Morohira was his adopted son.
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They had an adopted son.
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Fuyuhira was his adopted son.
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Sukehira was his adopted son.
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In that case, therefore, an adopted son or daughter may succeed to the tenancy of an agricultural holding.
The adopted son or daughter relationship is already covered and this just takes it a generation further.
I had a letter only last week from a woman whose adopted son is a life prisoner.
For instance, why should an adopted son or daughter have the farm where there are no blood relations?
Together they have an adopted son.
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I have an adopted son, aged eight.
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Watanabe has two biological children and an adopted son.
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Boagiu is not married and has an adopted son.
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He has an informally adopted son from this country.
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They were the parents of an adopted son.
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We cannot take the risk that certain adoptive parents, for whatever strange reason, will choose not to give that information to their adopted son or daughter.
It would be quite improper if in this particular instance we were to say that an adopted son or daughter was not to have the ordinary legal rights.
If the deceased father has no children, an adopted son inherits all the property.
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The adopted son bears the lineage identity of the foster parents.
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But he could not offer protection for her adopted son, so she refused his offer.
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