acquisitive 的定义
- tending or seeking to acquire and own, often greedily; eager to get wealth, possessions, etc.: our acquisitive impulses; acquisitive societies.
acquisitive 近义词
eager to obtain knowledge or things
更多acquisitive例句
- 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.