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/ˌækwəzˈɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Acquisition n.

The act or process of acquiring. "The acquisition or loss of a province."

Specifically: (Business, Finance) The purchase of one commercial enterprise by another, whether for cash, or in a trade of stock of the purchasing company for that of the purchased company.

Synonyms: buyout, takeover.

The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition.

Synonyms: See Acquirement.

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Etymology of 'Acquisition'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Acquisition" Quotes from Famous Books

... interior portions of the country were first visited by Europeans, a different state of affairs was found to prevail. There the acquisition of the horse and the possession of firearms had wrought very great changes in aboriginal habits. The acquisition of the former enabled the Indian of the treeless plains to travel distances with ease and celerity which before were practically impossible, and the possession ...

— Seventh Annual Report • Various

... sentiment for the cavaliers. If Evelyn had been educated by her in Edinburgh, she might have been in sentiment a young Jacobite. She had through translations a sufficient knowledge of the classics to give her the necessary literary background, and her study of Latin had led her into the more useful acquisition of French. ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... making this new acquisition to my geography was of itself sufficient to atone for any aches or weariness I may have felt. The mere fact that one may walk from Washington to Pumpkintown was a discovery I had been all these years in making. I had walked to Sligo, and to the ...

— Winter Sunshine • John Burroughs

... of personal goodness II. Unconsciousness III. Reflex action IV. Conscious experience V. Self-consciousness VI. Its degrees VII. Its acquisition VIII. Its instability ...

— The Nature of Goodness • George Herbert Palmer

... who contributed money for the building of S. Peter's, etc. Indulgences presuppose repentance and confession, and the performance of those good works which are prescribed as conditions necessary for their acquisition, as communion, ...

— The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome • Charles Michael Baggs

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