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The experience of opposing mass movements was acquired by the KGB during perestroika. It was then that the politicians decided to develop and nourish mass movements for their purposes.
Vladimir Bukovsky

Meaning of "acquired" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ACQUIRED

acquired  [əˈkwaɪəʳd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ACQUIRED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Acquired is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ACQUIRED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Acquired disorder

An acquired disorder is a medical condition which develops post-fetally; in contrast with a congenital disorder, which is present at birth. A congenital disorder may be antecedent to an acquired disorder. The term acquired may also be used to describe permanent or temporary modifications or devices which have been placed or created by a medical professional during palliation or treatment of a medical condition.

Definition of acquired in the English dictionary

The first definition of acquired in the dictionary is used to describe something you got or obtained, through buying or being given it, for example. Other definition of acquired is used to describe something you got or obtained by learning it. Acquired is also used to describe something you are starting to suffer from.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ACQUIRED


afterward
ˈɑːftəʳwəʳd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ACQUIRED

acquiesce
acquiescence
acquiescent
acquiescently
acquight
acquirability
acquirable
acquire
acquired behaviour
acquired characteristic
acquired drive
acquired immune deficiency syndrome
acquired immunity
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
acquired taste
acquiree
acquirement
acquirer
acquis communautaire
acquisition

WORDS THAT END LIKE ACQUIRED

curly-haired
dark-haired
desired
gas-fired
hearing impaired
impaired
inspired
leave much to be desired
long-haired
mired
red-haired
required
retired
short-haired
tired
undesired
unfired
unrequired
visually impaired
wired

Synonyms and antonyms of acquired in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ACQUIRED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «acquired» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of acquired
achieve · amass · attain · bag · buy · collect · earn · gain · gather · get · grasp · imbibe · land · learn · master · obtain · procure · realize · receive · score · secure · win

Translation of «acquired» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ACQUIRED

Find out the translation of acquired to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of acquired from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «acquired» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

收购
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

adquirida
570 millions of speakers

English

acquired
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

का अधिग्रहण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اكتسبت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

приобрела
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

adquirido
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অর্জিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

acquis
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Diperolehi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

erworben
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

獲得した
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

인수
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Angsal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mua
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வாங்கியது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विकत घेतले
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Edinilen
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

acquisito
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nabyte
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

придбала
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dobândite
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αποκτήθηκαν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verkry
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förvärvade
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ervervet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of acquired

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ACQUIRED»

The term «acquired» is very widely used and occupies the 7.527 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «acquired».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ACQUIRED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «acquired» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «acquired» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about acquired

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10 QUOTES WITH «ACQUIRED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word acquired.
1
Philip Warren Anderson
I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.
2
Karen Armstrong
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
3
Avicenna
The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
4
Avicenna
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.
5
Michael Bennet
I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.
6
Henry Bessemer
At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.
7
Edward Bond
The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.
8
Hamish Bowles
I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that I've just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.
9
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.
10
Vladimir Bukovsky
The experience of opposing mass movements was acquired by the KGB during perestroika. It was then that the politicians decided to develop and nourish mass movements for their purposes.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACQUIRED»

Discover the use of acquired in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to acquired and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Acquired Speech and Language Disorders
This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the neurological basis of both the clinically recognised forms of aphasia and the various motor speech disorders, in both children and adults.
Bruce E. Murdoch, 2010
2
Acquired Aphasia in Children: Acquisition and Breakdown of ...
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Sintra, Portugal, September 13-15, 1990
Isabel Pavão Martins, 1991
3
Acquired tastes
Internationally bestselling author of A Year in Provence, Mayle comes out with a new bestseller about the true pleasure of fine living.
Peter Mayle, 1992
4
Community-Acquired Pneumonia
The goal of this volume is to present state-of-the-art knowledge on epidemiology, clinical presentation, immunology, pathology, and diagnosis including the identification of "new pathogens".
Norbert Suttorp, Tobias Welte, Reinhard Marre, 2007
5
Psychological Well Being and Acquired Communication Impairment
The book covers both the assessment of people with acquired communication impairments as well as reviewing the available interventional approaches.
Shelagh Brumfitt, 2009
6
Acquired hearing loss: psychological and psychosocial ...
The purpose of this book is to fill a gap in this research by describing what I believe to be the first-ever systematic investigation into the psychological and psychosocial effects of acquired hearing loss in adults of working age.
Alan J. Thomas, 1984
7
Acquired Dyslexia and Dysgraphia Across Scripts
This is an important question in cognitive neuroscience.
IOS Press, Incorporated, B. S. Weekes, 2005
8
Acquired neurogenic communication disorders: a clinical ...
This work provides a theoretical review, from a clinical perspective, of the nature and management of acquired neurogenic communication disorders and of the therapy such disorders require.
Ilias Papathanasiou, 2000
9
Acquired Taste: The French Origins of Modern Cooking
This book explores one of the most dramatic and stubbornly influential cultural changes in the history of food: the appearance in the mid-seventeenth century of modern French cuisine.
T. Sarah Peterson, 1994
10
Developmental and Acquired Dyslexia: Neuropsychological and ...
It was during a pleasant and warm (both literally and figuratively) two week period in October, 1991 that a number of researchers, scholars and c1inicians from diverse lands gathered at the beautiful Chateau de Bonas, near Toulouse, France ...
C.K. Leong, R.M. Joshi, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ACQUIRED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term acquired is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Land Should Not Be Acquired Without Farmers' Consent: Shiromani …
Likewise, land should only be acquired for public sector projects and the government should not get into acquisition of private entities, he said. «NDTV, Jul 15»
2
Angels nearly acquired Phillies OF Ben Revere
The Los Angeles Angels and Philadelphia Phillies nearly completed a trade that would have sent outfielder Ben Revere to the Halos, according ... «FantasyPros, Jul 15»
3
Essar forcibly acquired grazing, farm land in Gujarat: Cong
Congress today accused Essar Group of forcibly acquiring farmland and grazing fields in Gujarat's Devbhomi Dwarka district in collusion with ... «Business Standard, Jul 15»
4
Irish-founded cleaning start-up Hassle.com acquired for €32m
On-demand cleaning start-up Hassle. com, co-founded by Irish woman Jules Coleman, has been acquired by German rival Helpling for a ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
5
This eSports company just got acquired for $87 million
Swedish media company Modern Times Group has acquired a majority stake (74%) of Turtle Entertainment, the holding company for the ... «Fortune, Jul 15»
6
Indians' Richard acquired by Cubs
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WISH)- Indians' pitcher Clayton Richard has has been acquired outright by the Chicago Cubs, the team announced ... «WISH-TV, Jul 15»
7
Humana agrees to be acquired by Aetna
Humana agrees to be acquired by Aetna. Jul 3, 2015, 2:58am ... Humana Inc. has agreed to be acquired by Aetna Inc. in a $37 billion Enlarge. «Louisville Business First, Jul 15»
8
Newly acquired PG Greivis Vasquez excited about Bucks
Vasquez, who was acquired from the Raptors in a draft-day trade, feels that he has found an ideal fit with the Bucks. "I've got shooters; I've got ... «CBSSports.com, Jul 15»
9
TV3 Acquired by UPC, a Subsidiary of Liberty Global plc
TV3 Group, Ireland's leading commercial television broadcaster, is pleased to announce that its shareholder Doughty Hanson has agreed ... «TV3.ie, Jul 15»
10
Hassle acquired by German competitor Helpling
Hassle.com, the UK cleaning platform ranked sixth in the 2015 Startups 100 index, has been acquired by German competitor Helping in a move ... «Startups.co.uk, Jul 15»

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