单词 | acquiree |
释义 | acquireen. 1. A person from whom something is acquired. rare. ΚΠ 1908 Madras Law Jrnl. Rep. 1907 17 406 The first contention raised..is that the property given to the plaintiffs by her father was not joint family property but the separate property of the father... The property was acquired by Ramaswami and his son Rangaswami jointly, and the presumption that it was the joint property of the acquirees has not been rebutted. 1945 Law Inst. Jrnl. (Victoria & Queensland Law Soc.) Feb. 22/2 To require declarations including details of ancestry in all cases was unduly onerous since in the vast majority of dealings the acquiree was of British descent. 2. Business. A company bought out by another company; the subject of a corporate acquisition or merger. Cf. acquirer n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [noun] > that which is obtained or acquired strainc950 i-winc1000 winc1175 winninga1300 purchasec1325 by-gatec1330 getc1390 gettingc1400 acquisition1477 conquest1556 gleaning1576 acquiring1606 acquest1622 acquist1635 attain1661 obtainment1829 acquiree1950 1950 Rev. Econ. & Statistics 32 47/1 If growth subsequent to acquisition was at all comparable for the ‘acquirees’ of each rank group. 1969 Financial Executive May 36/2 Harassment of the acquiree's personnel by the investigator is minimized. 1989 Times 22 Sept. 13/4 I have been involved in a number of corporate acquisitions (both as acquirer and acquiree). 2001 Book July 37 Grann was CEO of Putnam Berkeley when she helped engineer its takeover by Penguin in 1996—and then ended up running the combined company as if the acquiree had bought the acquirer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1908 |
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