All 3 Uses
acquire
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- Japan, they argued, had to acquire a secure resource base to guarantee its industrial security.†
Chpt 3.
- In March of 1942 the Navy Department radically increased its size by acquiring the adjoining 130,000-acre Rancho Santa Margarita y Las Flores.†
Chpt 5. *acquiring = obtaining (coming into possession of)
- Leaving his entourage at the doorstep, the President trooped into the living room of the tiny duplex that Vasil and Martha had scrimped to acquire many years earlier.†
Chpt 18.
Definitions:
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(1)
(acquire) obtain (come into the possession of something)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)