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acquisition

/ak-wuh-zish-uhn/US // ˌæk wəˈzɪʃ ən //UK // (ˌækwɪˈzɪʃən) //

收购,购置,采集,获取

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
    • : something acquired; addition: public excitement about the museum's recent acquisitions.
    • : the purchase of one business enterprise by another: the acquisition of a rival corporation;mergers and acquisitions.
    • : Linguistics. the act or process of achieving mastery of a language or a linguistic rule or element: child language acquisition; second language acquisition.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounsomething obtained, received
Forms: acquisitions

Examples

  • With a lack of scripted content finished on time, reality television and acquisitions of already produced international shows have been used to fill the gap.

  • Microsoft is the only company to publicly confirm acquisition talks.

  • Benioff hinted that Salesforce is unlikely to go on an acquisition spree.

  • LinkedIn’s registered user base has grown from 400 million people at the time the acquisition closed in December 2016 to 706 million people as of July 2020.

  • Former House speaker Paul Ryan is starting a special purpose acquisition company that will seek to raise about $300 million, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources.

  • The user fee on duck stamps goes exclusively to funding federal acquisition of wetlands as wildlife habitat.

  • “EOTS is a poster child for one of the ills of the acquisition process,” the official said.

  • ISIS had broadly advertised its acquisition of a broad range of U.S.-made weapons during its rampage across Iraq.

  • Last year, the company raised funding at a $2 billion valuation and shot down a $3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook.

  • Whoever pulled the trigger (so to speak) on this acquisition may have just been caught up in the moment.

  • In brief, Chumru abused the English with such an air that he was regarded by the rebels as quite an acquisition.

  • It is skirted by houses and gardens and is a valuable acquisition to the town.

  • John Bones, lawyer, age twenty-six, was a recent acquisition to Coldriver village.

  • And his mind at least was happy in its new sense of expansion and acquisition, its increasing and developing powers.

  • It is when studies requiring abstruse thought are reached that the facility in acquisition of the savage races comes to an end.