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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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... overwhelmed his new converts and allies with favors and distinctions in return for this important acquisition, but he took care to despatch a strong force of veteran and genuine Christian troops to man ...

— Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada • Washington Irving

... his system is a supposed "law of the development of human thought," which regulates and determines the whole progress of the species in the acquisition of knowledge. This law is announced with the air of a man who has made a great discovery, and who is entitled, in consequence, to be regarded both as an original thinker, and as a benefactor to the world. "I believe," he says, "that I ...

— Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws • James Buchanan

... The impetuous young fellow and enthusiast continued inattentive and careless in this study. His intellectual nature was too restless and aggressive to be brought back easily to the study of dry technical rules, and yet its progress was not far-reaching enough, for even in art their acquisition ...

— Life of Wagner - Biographies of Musicians • Louis Nohl

... Brahmin, to whom a rich and charitable merchant presented two pieces of cloth, the finest that had ever been seen in the Agragrama. He showed them to the other Brahmins, who all congratulated him on so fortunate an acquisition; they told him it was the reward of some deed that he had done in a previous life. Before putting them on, he washed them, according to custom, in order to purify them from the pollution of the weaver's touch, and hung them up to dry, with ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various

... instructor, and all for what? For the ambiguous advantages which overgrown wealth and flagitious tyranny have to bestow? For a precarious possession in a land of turbulence and war? Advantages, which will not certainly be gained, and of which the acquisition, if it were sure, is ...

— Wieland; or The Transformation - An American Tale • Charles Brockden Brown

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