Sample sentences for ACQUISITION

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Definition

obtaining possession of something; or the thing possessed

From the fifth grade onward, most vocabulary acquisition occurs incidentally while reading.

acquisition = obtaining (in this case, understanding of words)

acquisition = getting (obtaining possession)

acquisition = obtaining (purchasing)

The company has not been as good since its acquisition by the large corporation.

acquisition = obtaining (taking ownership)

The acquisition of wisdom will come through his training.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

acquisition = possession (getting)

acquisition = possession (to obtain or get)

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.
Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own

acquisition = getting (obtaining) things

Jem took no pleasure in his acquisition; he jammed it in his pocket and walked silently beside me toward home.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

acquisition = thing he got (took possession of)

At the meeting where Asher was discussed, we retold many of the stories that we all remembered from his days of language acquisition.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

acquisition = getting (obtaining)

The Instructors of Threes were in charge of the acquisition of correct language.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

acquisition = getting (obtaining)

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.
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
Be that as it may, he had directed Mrs. Pocket to be brought up from her cradle as one who in the nature of things must marry a title, and who was to be guarded from the acquisition of plebeian domestic knowledge.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
Most of it has been consumed with the acquisition of food.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

acquisition = getting (obtaining)

To such a professional body Roger Chillingworth was a brilliant acquisition.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

acquisition = something obtained (taken into possession)

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.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

acquisition = getting or obtaining

...she imposed unwittingly on the old lady and gentleman by her ingenious cordiality; gained the admiration of Isabella, and the heart and soul of her brother: acquisitions that flattered her from the first — for she was full of ambition — and led her to adopt a double character without exactly intending to deceive any one.
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights

acquisitions = things obtained (gotten and possessed)

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.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
In 1805, after his Vice-Presidency, he made a voyage down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, to study the new acquisition of Louisiana.
Edward E. Hale -- The Man Without a Country
Run along now while f show off my new acquisition.
Susan Ee -- Angelfall
By this acquisition, Surda will nearly double in size.
Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance

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