单词	acquisitiveness
释义	acquisitiveac‧quis‧i‧tive /əˈkwɪzətɪv/ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Are we at risk from acquisitive predators, and who are they? But standing there with Billie, surrounded by implements that promised home improvement, he yielded to an acquisitive urge. Cut off from the mass of the people by race and language, the rulers also became increasingly acquisitive in terms of land. For government was occasioned by the needs of capitalism and the acquisitive mentality which capitalism produced. He had never previously thought of himself as acquisitive or even as particularly materialistic. Now, he said, most acquisitive companies would still prefer to do friendly transactions. Old, or unearned, money tends to be neither acquisitive nor outward-going, whereas new money tends to be both. Word family WORD FAMILYnounacquisitionadjectiveacquisitiveverbacquire wanting to have and keep a lot of possessions—acquisitiveness noun [uncountable]
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