adopted son

collocation in English

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adopted
adjective
uk
/əˈdɒp.tɪd/us
/əˈdɑːp.tɪd/
An adopted child has been legally taken by another family to be taken care of as their ...
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son
noun[C]
uk
/sʌn/us
/sʌn/
your ...
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(Definition ofadoptedandsonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Often a woman head was immediately succeeded by her son,adoptedson, or son-in-law.
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A certain woman, probably a widow, entered a lawsuit against her male cousins, andadoptedson(heir) and his wife.
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Women were eventually to lose even this tenuous hold, when anadoptedson-in-law was formally permitted to succeed as the head of the household.
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For example, was there an initiation ceremony, a rite de passage, to become "theadoptedsonof a prominent ritual leader, and eventually a respected village council elder"?
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Anadoptedsonor daughter may, therefore, succeed to a holding.
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Morohira was hisadoptedson.
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They had anadoptedson.
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Fuyuhira was hisadoptedson.
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Sukehira was hisadoptedson.
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In that case, therefore, anadoptedsonor daughter may succeed to the tenancy of an agricultural holding.
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Theadoptedsonor daughter relationship is already covered and this just takes it a generation further.
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I had a letter only last week from a woman whoseadoptedsonis a life prisoner.
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For instance, why should anadoptedsonor daughter have the farm where there are no blood relations?
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Together they have anadoptedson.
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I have anadoptedson, aged eight.
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Watanabe has two biological children and anadoptedson.
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Boagiu is not married and has anadoptedson.
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He has an informallyadoptedsonfrom this country.
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They were the parents of anadoptedson.
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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 theiradoptedsonor daughter.
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It would be quite improper if in this particular instance we were to say that anadoptedsonor daughter was not to have the ordinary legal rights.
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If the deceased father has no children, anadoptedsoninherits all the property.
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Theadoptedsonbears the lineage identity of the foster parents.
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But he could not offer protection for heradoptedson, so she refused his offer.
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