the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
something acquired; addition: public excitement about the museum's recent acquisitions.
the purchase of one business enterprise by another: the acquisition of a rival corporation;mergers and acquisitions.
Linguistics. the act or process of achieving mastery of a language or a linguistic rule or element: child language acquisition; second language acquisition.
Origin of acquisition
1375–1425; Middle English adquisicioun, a(c)quisicion<Latin acquīsītiōn- (stem of acquīsītiō), equivalent to acquīsīt(us), past participle of acquīrere to acquire + -iōn--ion
With a lack of scripted content finished on time, reality television and acquisitions of already produced international shows have been used to fill the gap.
After years of ‘too much TV,’ the pandemic means there’s now barely enough|Aric Jenkins|August 27, 2020|Fortune
Microsoft is the only company to publicly confirm acquisition talks.
Walmart joins Microsoft in effort to buy TikTok|Verne Kopytoff|August 27, 2020|Fortune
Benioff hinted that Salesforce is unlikely to go on an acquisition spree.
Salesforce shares soar 13% on strong growth despite the pandemic|jonathanvanian2015|August 25, 2020|Fortune
LinkedIn’s registered user base has grown from 400 million people at the time the acquisition closed in December 2016 to 706 million people as of July 2020.
Microsoft’s hands-off handling of LinkedIn offers model for potential TikTok acquisition|Tim Peterson|August 24, 2020|Digiday
Former House speaker Paul Ryan is starting a special purpose acquisition company that will seek to raise about $300 million, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources.
Paul Ryan jumps onto the SPAC train|Lucinda Shen|August 21, 2020|Fortune
“EOTS is a poster child for one of the ills of the acquisition process,” the official said.
Newest U.S. Stealth Fighter ‘10 Years Behind’ Older Jets|Dave Majumdar|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
ISIS had broadly advertised its acquisition of a broad range of U.S.-made weapons during its rampage across Iraq.
ISIS Video: America’s Air Dropped Weapons Now in Our Hands|Josh Rogin|October 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Last year, the company raised funding at a $2 billion valuation and shot down a $3 billion acquisition offer from Facebook.
‘The Snappening’ Is Real: 90,000 Private Photos and 9,000 Hacked Snapchat Videos Leak Online|Marlow Stern|October 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Whoever pulled the trigger (so to speak) on this acquisition may have just been caught up in the moment.
Why Does My Kids’ Elementary School Need a Tank?|Andy Hinds|September 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
With the success of Frozen and the acquisition of Maker, perhaps Disney is beginning to see the Web 2.0 light.
Mickey Mouse Takes Deadmau5 to Court|Jay Michaelson|September 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Its acquisition by the United States had been an old project of Jefferson's.
A History of the United States|Cecil Chesterton
He travelled abroad; and he cultivated poetry with the ardour he could even feel for the acquisition of words.
Calamities and Quarrels of Authors|Isaac Disraeli
In every arranged society which lives and increases there is an internal movement of ascent and acquisition.
Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time|Franois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
But the enticement of acquisition and discovery of novelty whilst there were not the governing influences in Balfour's excursion.
Makers of British Botany; a collection of biographies by living botanists|Various
The use of the text-book in school should assist in the acquisition of this power.
Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education|Ontario Ministry of Education
British Dictionary definitions for acquisition
acquisition
/ (ˌækwɪˈzɪʃən) /
noun
the act of acquiring or gaining possession
something acquired
a person or thing of special merit added to a group
astronauticsthe process of locating a spacecraft, satellite, etc, esp by radar, in order to gather tracking and telemetric information
Word Origin for acquisition
C14: from Latin acquīsītiōn-, from acquīrere to acquire
The empirical demonstration in psychology of an increase in the strength of the conditioned response in successive trials in which the conditioned and unconditioned stimuli are paired.