Acquire Definition

ə-kwīr
acquired, acquires, acquiring
verb
acquired, acquires, acquiring
To gain possession of.
Acquire 100 shares of stock.
American Heritage
To get or gain by one's own efforts or actions.
To acquire an education.
Webster's New World
To get by one's own efforts.
Acquire proficiency in math.
American Heritage
To come to have as one's own; get possession of.
To acquire certain traits.
Webster's New World
To gain through experience; come by.
Acquired a growing dislike of television sitcoms.
American Heritage
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Origin of Acquire

  • Middle English acquere from Old French aquerre from Latin acquīrere to add to ad- ad- quaerere to seek, get

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English aqueren, from Old French aquerre, from Latin adquaerere; ad + quaerere. See quest.

    From Wiktionary

Acquire Sentence Examples

  • We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.

  • He wanted to acquire a sound reading knowledge of modern Greek.

  • If, for example, a knitting needle is stroked with the south pole of a magnet, the strokes being directed from the middle of the needle towards the two extremities alternately, the needle will acquire a north pole at each end and a south pole in the middle.

  • It may be that, just as the usages of civilized nations have slowly crystallized into international law, so there may come a time when the political principles that govern states in relation to each other will be so clearly defined and so generally accepted as to acquire something of a legal or quasi-legal character.

  • Races inhabiting malarious districts acquire a certain degree of resistance, no doubt through natural selection.

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Words Starting With

AACACQ

Words Ending With

EREIRE

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Words Starting With A and Ending With E

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