Difference between Espouse and Adopt

ESPOUSE vs ADOPT: NOUN

Take in marriage
Choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
To become/get married to.
To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).
Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own

Take up and practice as one's own
Choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
Take into one's family
Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
Put into dramatic form
To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
To select and take or approve.
Take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities

To take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry.
To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse.
To give (a woman) in marriage.
To take in marriage; marry.
To take to one's self with a view to maintain; to make one's own; to take up the cause of; to adopt; to embrace.
To adhere to or advocate.

To take on the legal responsibilities as parent of (a child that is not one's biological child).
To take and follow (a course of action, for example) by choice or assent.
To take up and make one's own.
To move to or resettle in (a place).
To take on or assume.
To vote to accept.
To choose as standard or required in a course.
To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve
To become the owner or caretaker of (a pet, especially one from a shelter).

Take in marriage; married
Choose and follow
To pledge; commit; engage.
To take to one's self, or make one's own; embrace; adopt; become a participator or partizan in: as, to espouse the quarrel of another; to espouse a cause.
To take in marriage; marry; wed.
To promise, engage, or bestow in marriage; betroth.

In euchre, to play with the suit turned up for trumps: a privilege of the dealer.
Specifically, to admit into a relation of affiliation; confer the rights or privileges of kinship upon, as one who is not naturally related or connected; especially, to receive and treat as a child or member of one's family, etc.: as, the orphans were adopted by friends. See adoption, 2. To take or receive into any kind of new relationship: as, to adopt a person as an heir, or as a friend, guide, or example.
To choose for or take to one's self; make one's own by selection or assent; receive or agree to as a personal belonging or opinion: as, to adopt a name or an idea; an adopted citizen or country; the meeting adopted the resolution.
Choose and follow

Uphold, Propagate, Adhere, Preach, Sweep up, Get hitched with, Get married, Wed, Hook up with, Marry, Adapt, Conjoin, Follow, Adopt, Embrace

Embrace, Adoption, Implement, Dramatise, Take in, Take up, Take on, Take over, Dramatize, Acquire, Assume, Borrow, Take, Espouse, Follow

Acceding, Join, Accede, Advocate, Uphold, Propagate, Adhere, Sweep up, Wed, Hook up with, Marry, Adapt, Conjoin, Follow, Embrace

Implementing, Incorporate, Adhere, Introduce, Enact, Embrace, Adoption, Implement, Take up, Take on, Take over, Acquire, Take, Espouse, Follow

Some states adopt a mix of these approaches.
Company, as an emerging growth company, will adopt the new or revised standard at the time public companies adopt the new or revised standard.
Jurisdictions can choose to adopt the minimum standards only, or they can choose to also adopt some, or all, of the optional articles.
What specific requirements within the revised rule do Agreement States have to adopt, and how long do Agreement States have to adopt them?
To adopt a special rule, however, the House must adopt the report of the Rules Committee that pertains to a specific bill.
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Some jurisdictions adopt adversarial models focused on penalizing violators, whereas others adopt cooperative models focused on helping owners bring their properties into compliance.
Adopt exchange listing standards about compensation committee independence and factors affecting compensation adviser independence; adopt disclosure rules regarding compensation consultant conflicts.
States would adopt them all; but those measures the committee connect with others which we think the people of the South will never adopt.
Generally speaking, states are permitted to either adopt the Buy American Laws or adopt more stringent requirements.