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• acquire from ancestors — index inherit Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• acquire — ac·quire /ə kwīr/ vt ac·quired, ac·quir·ing: to come into possession, ownership, or control of: obtain as one s own the target s directors don t want the company to be acquired R. C. Clark the court acquired jurisdiction ac·quir·er also… …   Law dictionary

• acquire — (v.) mid 15c., acqueren, from O.Fr. aquerre acquire, gain, earn, procure, from V.L. *acquaerere, from L. acquirere to seek in addition to (see ACQUISITION (Cf. acquisition)). Reborrowed in current form from Latin c.1600. Related: ACQUIRED (Cf.… …   Etymology dictionary

• acquire — ► VERB 1) come to possess. 2) learn or develop (a skill, quality, etc.). DERIVATIVES acquirement noun acquirer noun. ORIGIN Latin acquirere get in addition , from quaerere seek …   English terms dictionary

• Acquire — For the game developer, see Acquire (game developer). For other uses, see Acquisition (disambiguation). Acquire The 1999 Hasbro version of Acquire Designer(s) Sid Sackson Publisher(s) …   Wikipedia

• acquire */*/ — UK [əˈkwaɪə(r)] / US [əˈkwaɪr] verb [transitive] Word forms acquire : present tense I/you/we/they acquire he/she/it acquires present participle acquiring past tense acquired past participle acquired 1) formal to get something, for example by… …   English dictionary

• acquire — ac|quire [ ə kwaır ] verb transitive FORMAL ** to get something, for example by buying it or being given it: We acquired the company for 100 million dollars. newly acquired: his newly acquired BMW acquire something from someone: The business was… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• acquire — 01. Personally, I ve never really [acquired] a taste for whiskey. 02. The artist [acquired] a lot of useful art supplies while shopping in the big city. 03. The [acquisition] of a number of original paintings by Vincent van Gogh was a major… …   Grammatical examples in English

• acquire — transitive verb (acquired; acquiring) Etymology: Middle English aqueren, from Anglo French acquerre, from Latin acquirere, from ad + quaerere to seek, obtain Date: 15th century 1. to get as one s own: a. to come into possession or control …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• acquire — [[t]əkwa͟ɪ͟ə(r)[/t]] ♦♦♦ acquires, acquiring, acquired 1) VERB If you acquire something, you buy or obtain it for yourself, or someone gives it to you. [FORMAL] [V n] General Motors acquired a 50% stake in Saab for about $400m... [V n from n] I… …   English dictionary

• acquire — ac|quire W2 [əˈkwaıə US əˈkwaır] v [T] [Date: 1400 1500; : Old French; Origin: aquerre, from Latin acquirere, from ad to + quaerere to look for, obtain ] 1.) formal to obtain something by buying it or being given it ▪ Manning hoped to acquire… …   Dictionary of contemporary English