All 10 Uses
acquire
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- If we have not yet acquired him then, we will cross over to the southeast corner of the square and work our way in to the center.†
Chpt 2. *acquired = obtained (came into possession of)
- Once he even acquired an American missile submarine, managing to maintain contact with her for nearly two hours before she vanished like a ghost into the black waters.†
Chpt 3.
- He had been there, too, years before, and acquired a taste for the exotic liquor.†
Chpt 7.
- His ESM receiver had just reported the signals of aircraft search-radar sets of the type used to acquire targets for air-to-surface missiles.†
Chpt 10.
- They had acquired the low-level raiders only a minute from the outer screen.†
Chpt 11.acquired = obtained (came into possession of)
- They had been trying to acquire this particular target for over two days, and Jones had had only an odd hour of sleep here and there.†
Chpt 11.
- Filitov had acquired the reputation of a commander who was both good and lucky.†
Chpt 12.acquired = obtained (came into possession of)
- If we find their boat, they're close enough to find out, acquire, localize, and shoot—and what can we do about it?†
Chpt 12.
- Her low-power sonar system immediately acquired the Russian submarine, half a mile away, at a depth of three hundred feet.†
Chpt 14.acquired = obtained (came into possession of)
- Ohios had been acquired so rarely by the Russians—three times to be exact, and in each case the quarry had been lost within minutes—that no one had a feel for the characteristics of the class.†
Chpt 17.
Definitions:
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(1)
(acquire) obtain (come into the possession of something)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)