Anagrams of: READOPTING

• a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism

• prey on or hunt for

• be earlier in time; go back further

• come before

• establish something as being earlier relative to something else

• that is going out or leaving

• behave in a certain manner

• hand over to the authorities of another country

• expel from a country

• involved in a kind of operation

• being in effect or operation

• an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding

• the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey

• the cost of carrying or transporting

• overland track between navigable waterways

• carrying boats and supplies overland

• choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans

• take up and practice as one's own

• take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities

• take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect

• take into one's family

• put into dramatic form

• take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own