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/əkwˈaɪərər/ Listen

Acquirer

noun

A person who acquires something (usually permanently).

A corporation gaining financial control over another corporation or financial institution through a payment in cash or an exchange of stock.

The financial institution that dispenses cash in automated teller machines and collects a fee from the bank that issued the credit card.

A credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing fee. Synonym: merchant bank.

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"Acquirer" Quotes from Famous Books

... books with a provenance, or in jackets made for them by Roger Payne—nay, in the original parchment or paper wrapper, or in a bit of real mutton which certain men call sheep. He was a person of literary tastes, and had written books in his day. But his chief celebrity was as an acquirer of those of others, provided always that they were old enough or rare enough. An item never passed into his possession without at once ipso facto gaining new attributes, almost invariably worded in a holograph memorandum on the fly-leaf. ...

— The Book-Hunter in London - Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting • William Roberts

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