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acquiring

/uh-kwahyuhr/US // əˈkwaɪər //UK // (əˈkwaɪə) //

获取,获取的,获取信息,获取的信息

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ac·quired, ac·quir·ing.

    • : to come into possession or ownership of; get as one's own: to acquire property.
    • : to gain for oneself through one's actions or efforts: to acquire learning.
    • : Linguistics. to achieve native or nativelike command of.
    • : Military. to locate and track with a detector, as radar.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbobtain or receive

Examples

  • The Wizards acquired Michigan State’s four-year point guard Wednesday in a draft-night deal that sent the rights to Washington’s No.

  • Vox Media kicked off the merger wave in September 2019 when it announced plans to acquire New York Media, publisher of New York magazine.

  • He will also continue in his role as a part-owner of TSM, after increasing the stake he acquired as part of a groundbreaking two-year contract he signed in 2019.

  • Matthew Clark, Hogan’s chief of staff at the time, said he would contact some of the labs, but made clear that acquiring test kits was not his first concern.

  • With his newfound free time, the father of two vowed to acquire an untapped skill every week.

  • She began operating out of her home garage in 1980, slowly acquiring the many props and tools that would decorate her dungeon.

  • The last federal position he held was Inmate--he served more than eight years for his inventive approach to acquiring money.

  • You spend three or more hours per day reading about, acquiring or preparing certain kinds of food you believe to be “pure.”

  • “Juan Carlos has always been slightly obsessed by acquiring money,” says one member of Madrid society.

  • Acquiring the first license and making the first sale Tuesday morning is crucial on several levels, he says.

  • He is already in easy circumstances, and is in a fair way of soon acquiring a brilliant fortune.

  • All of it was worthless—except to a man of vision—so, treading lightly, Scattergood went about acquiring what he needed.

  • He was rapidly acquiring distinction in science, and his loss was much regretted.

  • One of the first immediate tasks to be done was the training of soldiers in Virginia and the acquiring of cannon and fire-arms.

  • Only some persons are naturally disposed to be polite, as others are in acquiring great talents and solid virtue.