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The acquisition of an accurate and easy conversation, of some skill in music, and in pure and healthful diversions, are of great benefit in fitting one for social intercourse, in which one of the greatest sources of pleasure is found.
Joseph P. Bradley

Meaning of "acquisition" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ACQUISITION

From Latin acquīsītiōn-, from acquīrere to acquire.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ACQUISITION

acquisition  [ˌækwɪˈzɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ACQUISITION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Acquisition is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ACQUISITION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Acquisition

Acquisition may refer to: ▪ Takeover, the acquisition of a company ▪ Mergers and acquisitions, strategy of buying and selling of various companies to quickly grow a company ▪ Procurement, the acquisition of goods and/or services at the best possible total cost of ownership ▪ Military acquisition, the process of acquiring products for national defence ▪ Library acquisitions, the department of a library responsible for obtaining books ▪ "Acquisition", the 18th episode of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise ▪ Seismic acquisition, the artificial generation and recording of seismic data. ▪ Acquisition, a Gnutella-based peer-to-peer and BitTorrent client for Mac OS X ▪ Acquisition, the creation of a disk image for use in digital forensics. ▪ Acquisition stage, the time during which a conditional response first appears and when it increases in frequency. ▪ Acquisitions, a New Zealand kitchen, table and giftware retail chain.

Definition of acquisition in the English dictionary

The first definition of acquisition in the dictionary is the act of acquiring or gaining possession. Other definition of acquisition is something acquired. Acquisition is also a person or thing of special merit added to a group.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ACQUISITION


composition
ˌkɒmpəˈzɪʃən
deposition
ˌdɛpəˈzɪʃən
derequisition
diːˌrɛkwɪˈzɪʃən
disposition
ˌdɪspəˈzɪʃən
disquisition
ˌdɪskwɪˈzɪʃən
exposition
ˌɛkspəˈzɪʃən
imposition
ˌɪmpəˈzɪʃən
inquisition
ˌɪnkwɪˈzɪʃən
metaphysician
ˌmɛtəfɪˈzɪʃən
musician
mjuːˈzɪʃən
nonphysician
ˌnɒnfɪˈzɪʃən
opposition
ˌɒpəˈzɪʃən
perquisition
ˌpɜːkwɪˈzɪʃən
physician
fɪˈzɪʃən
position
pəˈzɪʃən
preacquisition
ˌpriːækwɪˈzɪʃən
proposition
ˌprɒpəˈzɪʃən
reacquisition
ˌriːækwɪˈzɪʃən
requisition
ˌrɛkwɪˈzɪʃən
transition
trænˈzɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ACQUISITION

acquired characteristic
acquired drive
acquired immune deficiency syndrome
acquired immunity
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
acquired taste
acquiree
acquirement
acquirer
acquis communautaire
acquisition accounting
acquisitional
acquisitive
acquisitively
acquisitiveness
acquisitor
acquist
acquit
acquitment
acquittal

WORDS THAT END LIKE ACQUISITION

accreditation
addition
ambition
audition
coalition
competition
condition
definition
edition
exhibition
expedition
high definition
ignition
in a position
in addition
in mint condition
limited edition
nutrition
recognition
tradition
tuition

Synonyms and antonyms of acquisition in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ACQUISITION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «acquisition» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of acquisition

Translation of «acquisition» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ACQUISITION

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

Translator English - Chinese

收购
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

adquisición
570 millions of speakers

English

acquisition
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अधिग्रहण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

شراء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

приобретение
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

aquisição
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অর্জন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

acquisition
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pengambilalihan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Erwerb
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

買収
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

인수
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Akehe
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mua lại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கையகப்படுத்தல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

संपादन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

edinme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

acquisizione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nabycie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

придбання
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

achiziție
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εξαγορά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verkryging
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förvärv
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

oppkjøpet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of acquisition

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ACQUISITION»

The term «acquisition» is very widely used and occupies the 7.484 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ACQUISITION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «acquisition» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «acquisition» 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 acquisition

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10 QUOTES WITH «ACQUISITION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word acquisition.
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Brian Acton
Going public is 18-month process, while an acquisition is a 6-month process. Going public means going under so much scrutiny, regulatory approval, auditing, magnified 10 times. Having the stomach to do that isn't necessarily in my DNA. My DNA is building a product and a service.
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Sandy Adams
I believe we should use all means necessary to prevent the acquisition or fabrication of nuclear weapons by countries or groups hostile to the U. S. We should act in concert with our allies who are similarly working to protect their countries.
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Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region.
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Arthur Blank
My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.
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Lloyd Blankfein
I got into Goldman really by acquisition because I had gone - I grew up in east New York in the Linden Projects - I did go to fancy schools, but my resume wasn't up to a Wall Street set of resumes. I went to college. I went to law school and practiced for a while.
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Joseph P. Bradley
The acquisition of an accurate and easy conversation, of some skill in music, and in pure and healthful diversions, are of great benefit in fitting one for social intercourse, in which one of the greatest sources of pleasure is found.
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John Cage
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'
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Stephen Cambone
And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department's business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish.
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Louis R. Chenevert
Goodrich was the biggest acquisition in the history of aerospace.
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Louis R. Chenevert
In my view, until the U.S. tax policy is revised, not just tax extenders but the reform of tax policy, it makes it very attractive for us to invest on acquisition overseas.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACQUISITION»

Discover the use of acquisition in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to acquisition and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Acquisition Strategy and Implementation
"An independent consultant, Hubbard (business administration, Oxford U.) explains why half of all attempts to acquire a business, or merge two businesses, fail.
Nancy Hubbard, 1999
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Skill Acquisition in Sport: Research, Theory and Practice
No other book covers this fundamental topic in such breadth or depth, making this book important reading for any student, scholar or practitioner working in sport science, cognitive science, kinesiology, clinical and rehabilitation sciences ...
Nicola Hodges, Mark A. Williams, 2012
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Acquisition and Performance of Sports Skills
This is the second title to appear in a new series - Wiley SportTexts that aims to provide textbooks covering the key disciplines within the academic study of sport.
Terry McMorris, 2005
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A Handbook for Seismic Data Acquisition in Exploration
The book explains why we use the seismic method in exploration and is written in a manner palatable to geologists, field crews, exploration managers, petroleum engineers, and geophysicists.
Brian J. Evans, William H. Dragoset, 1997
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Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition: A Rationale for Pedagogy
Second Language Vocabularly Acquisition has the goal of comparing the effectiveness of the direct learning of vocabulary (through memorization) and the indirect learning of vocabulary (through context); it encourages an appropriate balance ...
James Coady, Thomas Huckin, 1997
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Theory Construction in Second Language Acquisition
It is the first book to use the philosophy of science in order to examine the epistemological underpinnings of SLA research and evaluate rival theories of SLA.
Geoff Jordan, 2004
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Second Language Acquisition in a Study Abroad Context
Utilizing different research methodologies (quantitative, qualitative, descriptive), the focus in this collection is on various aspects of second language learning, including the acquisition of sociolinguistic competence, the acquisition of ...
Barbara F. Freed, 1995
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Language Acquisition
The study of language acquisition has become a center of scientific inquiry into the nature of the human mind.
Jill G. De Villiers, Peter A. De Villiers, 1978
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Acquisition in Interlanguage Pragmatics: Learning how to Do ...
The Longitudinal investigation which provides the basic material for this book consists of a corpus of requests, offers and refusals of offers elicited from Irish learners of German over a ten-month study abroad period using production ...
Anne Barron, 2001
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Foreign and Second Language Learning: Language Acquisition ...
In Foreign and Second Language Learning, William Littlewood surveys recent research into how people acquire languages and considers its relevance for language teaching.
William Littlewood, 1984

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ACQUISITION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term acquisition is used in the context of the following news items.
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China Moly plumps for $US2 billion acquisition
CMOC said if successful, the acquisition would "not exceed $US2.15 billion". That price tag is in the ballpark of what Zaldivar is expected to sell ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
2
SSI Completes Acquisition of MyOpinions and SmileCity
This acquisition strengthens SSI's leadership position as a global data solutions and technology company, and aligns with its overall strategy to ... «PR Newswire, Jul 15»
3
Gujarat rejects claim of forced land acquisition for Essar
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat government today rubbished allegations of the Congress regarding forced land acquisition for the Essar group, ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»
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Lakers Trade Analysis: Roy Hibbert acquisition is a big win for the …
The Lakers finally set off some Summer 2015 fireworks with the acquisition of former Indiana Pacers center Roy Hibbert. The two-time All-Star, ... «Silver Screen and Roll, Jul 15»
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Leopard Resources to make acquisition, raise capital
Leopard Resources (ASX:LRR) has some interesting news on the horizon in the form of an acquisition, which will be supported by a capital ... «Proactive Investors Australia, Jul 15»
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Land acquisition for IIT Palakkad to begin soon
A special task force has been formed under a special tahsildar for land acquisition. He has 50 staff members apart from five teams of surveyors. «The Hindu, Jul 15»
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Pulse Health prepares to reveal material acquisition
Pulse Health (ASX:PHG) recently provided an update confirming guidance of FY15 underlying EBITDA growth from existing assets in excess of ... «Proactive Investors Australia, Jul 15»
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2 Foreign Firms Explain Reasons For Acquisition Of Nigeria's Oando
Vitol Group has partnered with Africa focused investment firm, Helios Investment, to acquire the downstream business of Nigeria's Oando Plc. «Leadership Newspapers, Jul 15»
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Medha Patkar asks CM to make stand clear on Land Acquisition Bill
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa must clarify her stand on the Land Acquisition Bill, said Medha Patkar, advisor to National Alliance of People's ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
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Acquisition drives transport firm's growth
A transport company has acquired a York-based haulage business to help it win more clients and increase the size of its fleet. TEF Transport ... «Yorkshire Post, Jul 15»

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