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adopter

American  
[uh-dahpt-er] / əˈdɑpt ər /

noun

  1. someone who adopts a child or a pet.

  2. someone who adopts for their own use a method, service, piece of technology, etc.


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Gil had been an early adopter of e-commerce after his old store folded, and he made a nice living selling books on eBay and Amazon.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

As an “SCTV” early adopter, O’Hara was first attractive to me because she was funny, but she was also beautiful — a beauty she could subvert by a subtle or broad rearrangement of her features.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

Van Eck, the CEO, himself is a keen adopter of AI and reveals that all of his employees have access to a ChatGPT license.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 26, 2026

The intense pressure to adopt AI—from bosses, peers and, if you’re an earlier adopter like me, voices in your head—is real.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

In Rome the effect of adoption was to create the legal relation of father and son, just as if the person adopted was born of the blood of the adopter in lawful marriage.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various