To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility.
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 obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild.
To select and take or approve.
To beat an opponent ten times in a row.
To choose or make a decision (to do something)
To choose (a candidate) in an election
In Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.
One chosen or set apart.
Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.