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Acquirer

Acquirer \Ac*quir"er\, n. A person who acquires.

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acquirer

n. 1 One who acquires. 2 A bank or financial institution that processes credit card or debit card payments on behalf of a merchant.

WordNet
acquirer
  1. n. a person who acquires something (usually permanently)

  2. a bank gaining financial control over another financial institution through a payment in cash or an exchange of stock

  3. the financial institution that dispenses cash in automated teller machines and collects a fee from the bank that issued the credit card

  4. a credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing fee [syn: merchant bank]

Usage examples of "acquirer".

A chronic acquirer, Jefferson is not known to have ever denied himself anything he wished in the way of material possessions or comforts.

Falcon had run through his fortune, but had acquired, in the process, certain talents which, as they cost the acquirer dear, so they sometimes repay him, especially if he is not overburdened with principle, and adopts the notion that, the world having plucked him, he has a right to pluck the world.

Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address below You must not circulate this book in any other binding or cover and you must impose the same condition on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication-Data Chin, Yung, 1924-[Lu ting chi.

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.