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acquisition::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | accomplishment, acquirement, attainment, skill |
| Type of | power, ability |
| Has types | marksmanship, mastership, oarsmanship, numeracy, mixology, salesmanship, literacy, craft, craftsmanship, soldiership, soldiering, horsemanship, showmanship, seamanship, workmanship, swordsmanship |
| Derivation | acquire |
acquisition::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | learning |
| Type of | basic cognitive process |
| Has types | carry-over, work, internalisation, incorporation, imprinting, education, digestion, memorization, memorisation, study, language learning, developmental learning, conditioning, transfer, internalization, committal to memory, transfer of training |
| Derivation | acquire |
the child's acquisition of language.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | transferred property, transferred possession |
| Has types | accession, gift, addition, purchase |
a recent acquisition by the museum.
acquisition::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | getting, acquiring |
| Has types | succession, acceptance, annexation, assumption, buyout, heritage, incurring, inheritance, laying claim, moneymaking, pork-barreling, procural, procurance, procurement, purchase, regaining, restitution, restoration, return, taking over |
| Derivation | acquire |
the acquisition of wealth.
the acquisition of one company by another.
Examples of acquisition
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The acquisition is just one in a recent spate of additions to his global empire.
From the online.wsj.com
The harvesting of advertising on its YouTube acquisition should start next year.
From the forbes.com
The integration of Pepsi's latest acquisition has been bumpier than anticipated.
From the businessweek.com
Then Birmingham may be able to reenter the merger-and-acquisition game and grow.
From the businessweek.com
The acquisition leaves him strapped and he doesn't spend on players and coaches.
From the freep.com
He alters their lineup more than any other acquisition made around the deadline.
From the stltoday.com
Mom bloggers, no surprises there, have been a key to their customer acquisition.
From the gothamgal.com
Tata's 2007 acquisition of Corus, an Anglo-Dutch steel firm, is a case in point.
From the economist.com
Xobni was in acquisition talks with Microsoft last year, but nothing came of it.
From the techcrunch.com
- The act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something; "the acquisition of wealth"; "the acquisition of one company by another"
- Something acquired; "a recent acquisition by the museum"
- Learning: the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge; "the child's acquisition of language"
- Skill: an ability that has been acquired by training
- Government procurement in the United States is based on many of the same principles as commercial contracting, but is subject to special laws and regulation as described below.
- Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive, produce and use words to understand and communicate. This capacity involves the picking up of diverse capacities including syntax, phonetics, and an extensive vocabulary. ...
- Military acquisition is a management process dealing with a nation's investments in the technologies, programs, and product support necessary to achieve its national security strategy and support its armed forces. ...
- Learning is acquiring new knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, preferences or understanding, and may involve synthesizing different types of information. The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals and some machines. Progress over time tends to follow learning curves.
- Acquisition is a Gnutella-based peer-to-peer client that is also capable of supporting BitTorrent designed specifically for Mac OS X. It is based on LimeWire and is a shareware product, priced from $25. ...
