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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adopter

Boots was an early adopter of the loyalty cards commonly offered today by companies offering points and discounts to customers who sign up.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Slate was an early adopter of the listicle, that now-familiar internet format.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

Lan was an early adopter, diversifying his crop two decades ago and now boasting 400 durian trees in Ea Knuec commune, part of Dak Lak province.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

Amazon, an early adopter, was hiring a principal AI executive to drive AI-tool adoption across production, plus roles in operations automation and LLM content classification, the listings revealed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

If however, the one adopted was disagreeable, the adopter gave him up by giving back the sum that had been given for his adoption, and the contract was annulled.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

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