The word, adapt, adept and adopt are confusing. Definitions of these words are followed,
Management executives of the future will have to be adept at cross-cultural troubleshooting.Diversity in the Workplase - Business Communication in Action Lesson 4
- adapt
- v to change sth in order to make it suitable for a new use or situation
- adept
- v good at doing sth that is quite difficult
- adopt
- v to start to use a particular method or to show a particular attitude towards sb/sth
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