acquisition
the purchase of one business enterprise by another: the acquisition of a rival corporation;mergers and acquisitions.
Linguistics. the act or process of achieving mastery of a language or a linguistic rule or element: child language acquisition; second language acquisition.
Origin of acquisition
1Other words from acquisition
- ac·qui·si·tion·al, adjective
- ac·quis·i·tor [uh-kwiz-i-ter], /əˈkwɪz ɪ tər/, noun
- pre·ac·qui·si·tion, noun
- pro·ac·qui·si·tion, adjective
- re·ac·qui·si·tion, noun
- su·per·ac·qui·si·tion, noun
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How to use acquisition in a sentence
With a lack of scripted content finished on time, reality television and acquisitions of already produced international shows have been used to fill the gap.
After years of ‘too much TV,’ the pandemic means there’s now barely enough | Aric Jenkins | August 27, 2020 | FortuneMicrosoft is the only company to publicly confirm acquisition talks.
Benioff hinted that Salesforce is unlikely to go on an acquisition spree.
Salesforce shares soar 13% on strong growth despite the pandemic | jonathanvanian2015 | August 25, 2020 | FortuneLinkedIn’s registered user base has grown from 400 million people at the time the acquisition closed in December 2016 to 706 million people as of July 2020.
Microsoft’s hands-off handling of LinkedIn offers model for potential TikTok acquisition | Tim Peterson | August 24, 2020 | DigidayFormer House speaker Paul Ryan is starting a special purpose acquisition company that will seek to raise about $300 million, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources.
The user fee on duck stamps goes exclusively to funding federal acquisition of wetlands as wildlife habitat.
Nazis, Sunscreen, and Sea Gull Eggs: Congress in 2014 Was Hella Productive | Ben Jacobs | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“EOTS is a poster child for one of the ills of the acquisition process,” the official said.
Newest U.S. Stealth Fighter ‘10 Years Behind’ Older Jets | Dave Majumdar | December 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTISIS had broadly advertised its acquisition of a broad range of U.S.-made weapons during its rampage across Iraq.
ISIS Video: America’s Air Dropped Weapons Now in Our Hands | Josh Rogin | October 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLast year, the company raised funding at a $2 billion valuation and shot down a $3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook.
‘The Snappening’ Is Real: 90,000 Private Photos and 9,000 Hacked Snapchat Videos Leak Online | Marlow Stern | October 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhoever pulled the trigger (so to speak) on this acquisition may have just been caught up in the moment.
Why Does My Kids’ Elementary School Need a Tank? | Andy Hinds | September 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn brief, Chumru abused the English with such an air that he was regarded by the rebels as quite an acquisition.
The Red Year | Louis TracyIt is skirted by houses and gardens and is a valuable acquisition to the town.
John Bones, lawyer, age twenty-six, was a recent acquisition to Coldriver village.
Scattergood Baines | Clarence Budington KellandAnd his mind at least was happy in its new sense of expansion and acquisition, its increasing and developing powers.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonIt is when studies requiring abstruse thought are reached that the facility in acquisition of the savage races comes to an end.
Man And His Ancestor | Charles Morris
British Dictionary definitions for acquisition
/ (ˌækwɪˈzɪʃən) /
the act of acquiring or gaining possession
something acquired
a person or thing of special merit added to a group
astronautics the process of locating a spacecraft, satellite, etc, esp by radar, in order to gather tracking and telemetric information
Origin of acquisition
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