Synonym: earn, gain, obtain, secure. Antonym: lose, miss. Similar words: acquisition, acquiescence, require, required, inquire about, requirement, acquainted, inquiry. Meaning: [ə'kwaɪə] v. 1. come into the possession of something concrete or abstract 2. take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect 3. come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) 4. locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar 5. win something through one's efforts 6. gain knowledge or skills 7. gain through experience.
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181. Under the first, a sale agreement, the Prudential agreed to acquire a freehold property.
182. If you can acquire this information through a personal interview or contact, by all means do so.
183. Knowing when not to apply the rules is clearly an important skill to acquire.
184. If A then sells and delivers them to an innocent purchaser, the latter will acquire good title.
185. It said it will use the net proceeds to acquire long-life natural gas reserves and exploit development opportunities.
186. It was to enable the government to acquire land sold during the depression to pay off debts.
187. The autonomous learner lacking particular knowledge knows how to acquire that knowledge.
188. He's also determined to acquire systems software technology like utilities from the outside.
189. Personal property managers acquire, distribute, and store supplies,(www.Sentencedict.com) and may sell or dispose of surplus property.
190. You acquire gravitas and project it like a cologne whenever you discuss the singular and laudable Salomon Brothers culture.
191. Its strategy is to acquire engineering companies in niche markets and dispose of existing businesses to reduce borrowings.
192. In such cases cultural values acquire a new importance and can become decisive.
193. Having sorted out his long game he just needs to acquire more consistency around the green.
194. Confidence is one of the key qualities you acquire from being on a national team.
195. The first, and most general, is the willingness of companies to pay over the odds when they acquire other companies.
196. A trust has now been able to acquire it and take the first steps towards long-term restoration.
197. They acquire a vast amount of information about their world without direct intervention from their parents or their teachers.
198. Thus some one taking only a pledge can not acquire good title by virtue of this provision.
199. No matter how old we become, we can acquire knowledge and use it. We can gather wisdom and profit from it. We can grow and progress and improve-and, in the process, strengthen the livs of those within our circle of influence. Gordon B. Hinckley
200. Industrial visits and other opportunities to acquire appropriate experience form part of the course.
201. The directors in that case had decided that the company should acquire a brokerage business for a substantial sum.
202. These include the ability to acquire land at values that take an account of development gain arising from their designation and activities.
203. Virtually everyone who works for an enterprise from time to time will acquire information from the environment of potential value to its operations.
204. They have a competitive edge in larger buying power, enabling them to acquire stock at prices way below the small independents.
205. But for Aristotle and his followers, the belief held that the only knowledge we can acquire originates in sense-perceptions.
206. The more sophisticated provincial dealers tried to acquire the new denomination at the end of the year as a means of hoarding.
207. People are keen to applaud the successes of physically handicapped people who gain successful academic qualifications, and acquire practical skills.
208. Graduates of this course will acquire such expertise, together with the capacity to communicate across cultural and linguistic boundaries.
209. But in practice it was difficult to acquire sufficiently large sites for the proposed schemes.
210. Administrative organization is another factor that impeded attempts to acquire federal aid.
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