adoptable
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- adjective
- /əˈdɑːptəbl/
- Formal
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adoptable
- Whether you devote your Facebook status to an adoptable animal, blog about it, or tweet out a link to a cutie you'd like to see adopted, you can help.
- more adoptable
Examples
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Finally, for this week's adoptable pet:
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When animal shelters list adoptable animals, they give an approximate age, no?
Blog text (12) -
To see which dogs will be there as well as other adoptable dogs, go here.
Blog text (31) -
Every Sunday, we will feature an adoptable dog of the week.
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All of our dogs are adoptable.
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I would use it for lighting at the shelter where I volunteer, taking pictures of adoptable cats and dogs for the website!
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The dogs benefit through exposure to human contact and by learning behaviors that make them more readily adoptable and more attractive pets.
Academic text (2005) -
They help train the dogs and socialize the cats to make them more adoptable.
Blog text (16) -
In light of the presence of problem behaviors in some shelter animals, it seems advantageous to develop a program to reduce or eliminate these behaviors in order to make shelter animals more adoptable.
Academic text (2005) -
The shelter has many adoptable dogs waiting for a loving home.
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Etymology
Adoptable is made from adopt + -able, and adopt comes from Latin parts ad- 'to' and optare 'choose', the same root as option and opt. So, to be adoptable is 'able to be chosen', which is why it means suitable or eligible to be adopted.