acquisition
pronunciation
How to pronounce acquisition in British English:
UK [ˌækwɪˈzɪʃn]
How to pronounce acquisition in American English:
US [ˌækwɪˈzɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something
- something acquired
- the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge
- an ability that has been acquired by training
Word Origin
- acquisition (n.)
- late 14c., "act of obtaining," from Old French acquisicion (13c.) or directly from Latin acquisitionem (nominative acquisitio), noun of action from past participle stem of acquirere "get in addition, accumulate," from ad- "extra" (see ad-) + quaerere "to seek to obtain" (see query (v.)). Meaning "thing obtained" is from late 15c. The vowel change of -ae- to -i- in Latin is due to a Latin phonetic rule involving unaccented syllables in compounds.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Developments in china 's defense technology acquisition
- 2. Making a success of any acquisition will be a huge challenge .
- 3. Like jelinek , niyogi focused on the process of machine language acquisition .
- 4. It extends an experiment tried in guangdong province , allowing such land to be traded without first going through government acquisition .
- 5. In october myspace launched " artist dashboards " and integrated its music video vault with recent acquisition ilike .