Both Uses of
acquire
in
Turtles All the Way Down
- He said "our zoologist" as if they were normal words to say in the course of everyday conversation, as if most people who reached a certain standing in life acquired a zoologist.†
p. 35.3acquired = obtained (came into possession of)
- Almost 30 percent of people who died of C. diff didn't acquire it in a hospital, and over 20 percent didn't have diarrhea.†
p. 91.3 *
Definition:
obtain (come into the possession of something)