Sample Sentences for
acquisition
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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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    The acquisition of wisdom will come through his training.  (source)
    acquisition = possession (getting)
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    Most of it has been consumed with the acquisition of food.  (source)
    acquisition = getting (obtaining)
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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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    He's made some ill-advised acquisitions over the past year or so.†  (source)
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    The only thing I found worth acquisitioning was a handheld Tiger Woods golf game.†  (source)
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    I ardently desired the acquisition of knowledge.  (source)
    acquisition = getting (obtaining)
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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)
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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)
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    I declare he is that strange acquisition my late neighbour made, in his journey to Liverpool — a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway.  (source)
    acquisition = obtaining; or possession
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    We lived in the same building, so I would nod to her when I passed the acquisitions desk, or when I met her at the door in the hallway.†  (source)
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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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