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acquisitive

/uh-kwiz-i-tiv/US // əˈkwɪz ɪ tɪv //UK // (əˈkwɪzɪtɪv) //

掌握的,购置性的,掌握,购置

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : tending or seeking to acquire and own, often greedily; eager to get wealth, possessions, etc.: our acquisitive impulses; acquisitive societies.

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Examples

  • Accenture Interactive has been on an acquisitive spree of sorts over the last 10 years, growing its roster of independent agencies, as well as digital and marketing services firms.

  • Comcast, acquisitive octopus that it is, has a new, $45 billion bid for Time Warner Cable currently on the table.

  • “I think at that level the acquisitive hunter-gatherer gene influences them more than riches,” Bass said.

  • Along with his relatives and cronies, Karzai is widely suspected of corruption of both the acquisitive and political variety.

  • Susan Sontag once described the camera as “the ideal arm of consciousness in an acquisitive mood.”

  • His acquisitive mind was never idle, and in 1732 he began the publication of the celebrated "Poor Richard's Almanac."

  • Now here was an oddity in a world of self-centred, acquisitive tradespeople: a dealer who decried her own wares.

  • The angler constructs nothing: he belongs to the acquisitive branch.

  • He traces the Sophist by descending subdivision from the acquisitive genus of art.

  • Again, we may find the Sophist by descending through a different string of subordinate classes from the genus — Acquisitive Art.