Synonyms for acquisition
ˌæk wəˈzɪʃ ənac·qui·si·tion

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1. acquisitionnoun

   The act or process of acquiring.

   The acquisition of sports equipment can be fun in itself.

   Synonyms:
   procurement, accession

2. acquisitionnoun

   Synonyms:
   acquirement, accession

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1. acquisitionnoun

   the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something

   "the acquisition of wealth"; "the acquisition of one company by another"

   Synonyms:
   acquirement, learning, attainment, accomplishment, skill

2. acquisitionnoun

   something acquired

   "a recent acquisition by the museum"

   Synonyms:
   acquirement, learning, attainment, accomplishment, skill

3. learning, acquisitionnoun

   the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge

   "the child's acquisition of language"

   Synonyms:
   attainment, scholarship, eruditeness, encyclopaedism, accomplishment, learning, learnedness, erudition, acquirement, encyclopedism, skill

4. skill, accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, attainmentnoun

   an ability that has been acquired by training

   Synonyms:
   science, accomplishment, learning, attainment, acquirement, skill, achievement

Matched Categories

1. • Acquiring
   • Transferred Property

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1. acquisitionnoun

   Synonyms:
   ACQUIREMENT

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1. List of paraphrases for "acquisition":

   purchase, procurement, acquisitions, purchasing, acquiring, acquire, 'acquisition, acquired, buying, takeover, purchases, buying-in, procuring, buy, catchment, purchased, securement

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How to use acquisition in a sentence?

1. Loren Thompson:

   It's not clear how revenues would grow in the near term absent an acquisition.

2. Larry Johnson:

   The Buk uses a radar acquisition system for targeting, these arent highly trained FAA air traffic controllers. Youre tracking something on radar, you see a dot, you get confused.

3. Ma Wenfeng:

   Ning has restructured lots of domestic grain and food assets into COFCO and he would continue to play such a role in assets acquisition at Sinochem, particularly the seed and fertilizer business, without a breakthrough in China's seed industry, there is no hope for the country's agriculture sector and Ning should lead the state-owned company in that direction.

4. Philip Rinaldi:

   My focus and drive in pursuing this acquisition is to revitalize, modernize, and develop the site and the strategic refinery business that has existed there for decades to their full potential.

5. Deborah Festa:

   We are starting to see the beginning of managers pursuing potential merger and acquisition strategies with parties that have more capital to meet risk-retention obligations at the end of 2016.