acquisitive

Modifies a noun

• overture: Of income you've lost off acquisitive overtures wound up with.
• crime: About a third of the proceeds of acquisitive crime goes toward the purchase of heroin or crack.
• growth: The business is one of the North West's fastest growing businesses with recent acquisitive growth.
• society: We live in an acquisitive society where personal greed is accorded social respect.
• group: The acquisitive group recently forked out £ 21 million for luxury jeweler Mappin & Webb.
• client: We regularly top deals tables on the back of our practice in the corporate finance market which complements our work for established acquisitive clients.

Modifying Another Word

• highly: Another luxury deal handled by Cavendish was the sale of jewelry chain Mappin & Webb to the highly acquisitive Icelandic investor Baugur.
• very: He appears to have been very acquisitive in his ability to obtain prebends holding many during his life.
• increasingly: From here however, the company became increasingly acquisitive and ambitious.
• particularly: What are the links between drug use and crime, particularly acquisitive crime?

Used with adjective complement

• become: I do slightly wonder whether maintaining this sort of list externally actually encourages you to become more acquisitive.