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  • noun Alternative form of adopter.

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Examples

  • JOANNA HARKIN, ALLIANCE FOR STRAY ANIMALS & PEOPLE: I can take their animals, market them and try to get a good adoptor.

    CNN Transcript Jun 4, 2008 2008

  • I had just started using D-link wireless adoptor a few days ago.

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » StarSight brings WiFi in sight 2005

  • I'd characterize myself as an early adoptor, in Moore's terms.

    Navigating the Lag of Death Clark Aldrich 2005

  • Believe it or not, there is a growing trend in this country of adopting one's adult lover or spouse for various reasons: to better guarantee the adoptee's right to inherit directly from the adoptor; to keep other relatives from having any standing to contest an estate plan; or, as in Goodman's case, to add a spouse or lover to a class of trust beneficiaries, allowing the "child" to inherit from the "parent."

    Slate Articles Terry L. Turnipseed 2012

  • An NRODT reader/subscriber of over 15 years, I was an early adoptor of NRO.

    The Corner on National Review Online Kathryn Jean Lopez 2010

  • An NRODT reader/subscriber of over 15 years, I was an early adoptor of NRO.

    The Corner on National Review Online Kathryn Jean Lopez 2010

  • Being a N97 owner and early adoptor, and having owned a N82 for 1,5 years before that - ie as a Nokia fanby - I have to say the only compelling reason to prefer the N97 over the Nexus One is the keyboard.

    All About Symbian - News 2010

  • Being a N97 owner and early adoptor, and having owned a N82 for 1,5 years before that - ie as a Nokia fanby - I have to say the only compelling reason to prefer the N97 over the Nexus One is the keyboard.

    All About Symbian - News 2010

  • Being a N97 owner and early adoptor, and having owned a N82 for 1,5 years before that - ie as a Nokia fanby - I have to say the only compelling reason to prefer the N97 over the Nexus One is the keyboard.

    All About Symbian - News 2010

  • In addition to its early adoptor use of video interaction, it features a song called "No Reason to be Shaï" that sounds good and gets the brand name in.

    Cool Hunting 2009

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