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From the fifth grade onward, most vocabulary acquisition occurs incidentally while reading.acquisition = obtaining (in this case, understanding of words)
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Her primary focus is on the acquisition of money and the things it can buy.acquisition = getting (obtaining possession)
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The donation permitted the acquisition of several paintings by Picasso.acquisition = obtaining (purchasing)
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The company has not been as good since its acquisition by the large corporation.acquisition = obtaining (taking ownership)
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Most of it has been consumed with the acquisition of food. (source)acquisition = getting (obtaining)
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The Instructors of Threes were in charge of the acquisition of correct language. (source)
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Jem took no pleasure in his acquisition; he jammed it in his pocket and walked silently beside me toward home. (source)acquisition = thing he got (took possession of)
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Harvard dropout Bill Gates had returned to his alma mater to lend to the museum one of his priceless acquisitions—eighteen sheets of paper he had recently purchased at auction from the Armand Hammar Estate.† (source)acquisitions = things possessed
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The only thing I found worth acquisitioning was a handheld Tiger Woods golf game.† (source)
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True, they had money and power, but only at the cost of harbouring in their breasts an eagle, a vulture, forever tearing the liver out and plucking at the lungs—the instinct for possession, the rage for acquisition which drives them to desire other people's fields and goods perpetually; to make frontiers and flags; battleships and poison gas; to offer up their own lives and their children's lives. (source)acquisition = getting (obtaining) things
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He much preferred the acquisitions end— you know, going to auction —or being in the shop and chatting up the customers.† (source)acquisitions = things possessed
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To such a professional body Roger Chillingworth was a brilliant acquisition. (source)acquisition = something obtained (taken into possession)
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Books filled our long fiat from floor to ceiling in row after row of gleaming leather volumes, as Claudia and I pursued our natural tastes and Lestat went about his lavish acquisitions.† (source)acquisitions = things possessed
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He advised my attending certain places in London, for the acquisition of such mere rudiments as I wanted, and my investing him with the functions of explainer and director of all my studies. (source)acquisition = getting or obtaining
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You've been buying up companies all over Europe through mergers and acquisitions using surrogate and misleading corporate entities.† (source)acquisitions = things possessed
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I ardently desired the acquisition of knowledge. (source)acquisition = getting (obtaining)
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