verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
acquire/achieve/gain/develop competence
▪ First you have to acquire competence in methods of research.
acquire/assemble/amass a collectionformal
▪ The two men amassed a remarkable collection of medieval manuscripts.
acquire/assume significanceformal (= take on significance)
▪ As links with Europe continue to grow, language learning assumes even greater significance.
an acquired taste (=something that people do not like at first)
▪ This kind of tea is an acquired taste, but very refreshing.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
newly
▪ Infections newly acquired during this tail will therefore be under selection pressure.
▪ The median clearance time of newly acquired human papillomavirus was 6 months.
▪ One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce.
▪ She returned to the restaurant and put her newly acquired knowledge to work.
▪ The tour also visits several conservancy preserves, including newly acquired Watson Brake Mounds, one of the oldest mound complexes known.
recently
▪ Our chauffeur, Robin, had recently acquired new ` wheels'.
▪ My wife Kay recently acquired a disabled sticker for our car, and we found provision for disabled passengers greatly improved.
▪ Robinson tinkered with his lines, breaking up the Wayne Gretzky and recently acquired Kevin Stevens combination after three games.
▪ New fish may be a hybrid I recently acquired a Red Parrot fish.
▪ Recently acquired 70 new buses equipped with front-end bike racks that can accommodate two bikes.
■ NOUN
asset
▪ She would also be acquiring a capital asset.
▪ The waste-management company also entered into a pact to acquire other Wastemasters assets for about $ 15. 8 million.
▪ Indeed, Fleet was eager to liquidate the preferred shares, because they legally precluded it from integrating those newly acquired assets.
▪ Whether a company acquires an asset through loan or leasing, it is committed to making future cash payments.
▪ With the help of the Greyhound Bank it acquired Dan Air assets but grew quickly as its order book grew.
▪ Mr Pinault acquired an asset that subsequently produced lots of much-needed cash.
▪ Emap will acquire nominal net assets.
business
▪ Mr Wilbraham acquired five businesses within 15 months.
▪ It has been criticized by analysts for veering off that course and acquiring too many other businesses too quickly.
▪ Analysts are divided over whether Fore and the other expensively acquired businesses will ever make a decent return for shareholders.
▪ The directors in that case had decided that the company should acquire a brokerage business for a substantial sum.
▪ We have steadily acquired businesses since then.
▪ Warranties to be limited to events occurring after the Vendor acquired the Business.
▪ McKinsey rarely acquires other businesses, preferring to grow organically.
▪ Firstly, over the past few years, it has acquired various software businesses with related but incompatible products.
child
▪ From parents, children can acquire habits and tastes that are peculiar if not exclusive to a particular class.
▪ They were beginning to achieve astonishing economic success; and only their children would acquire a certain polish.
▪ It is hardly surprising that many children eventually acquire a similar attitude towards the relevance of mathematics.
▪ As children acquire the pidgin, they use it with playmates and other children in their peer group.
▪ Piaget suggested that behavior becomes intelligent when the child acquires the ability to solve new problems.
▪ Furthermore they are exceptionally ambitious in the language, skill and concepts they expect young children to acquire.
▪ Through learning, children acquire not only their parents' moral code but also a willingness to act in accordance with the rules.
company
▪ The third is for companies to acquire software for profiling, cross-analysing and clustering the census variables against their own customer records.
▪ Among the most debated changes is one that would affect minority shareholder rights when a company is acquired.
▪ Whether a company acquires an asset through loan or leasing, it is committed to making future cash payments.
▪ Larger companies in the industry acquired smaller companies, while the overall market demand for propane remained relatively stable.
▪ This can be done, for example, if the company acquires a source of income, such as opening a bank deposit account.
▪ Gensia and companies it has acquired lost $ 45. 8 million last year on sales of $ 58. 3 million.
▪ Labour today is rather like a car company whose models have acquired a reputation for unreliability.
▪ The new company also acquired five franchised units and raised more than $ 12 million for working capital.
corp
▪ The company got Notes last year by acquiring Lotus Development Corp.
▪ Milken served as an informal adviser to Ellison when he considered acquiring Apple Computer Corp. in 1994.
information
▪ Given the costs to the individual voter of acquiring this kind of information, it is not surprising that intermediaries have emerged.
▪ How do the cells acquire positional information?
▪ My first task was trying to acquire some reliable information about the nomads.
▪ Virtually everyone who works for an enterprise from time to time will acquire information from the environment of potential value to its operations.
▪ If you can acquire this information through a personal interview or contact, by all means do so.
▪ Large multinational corporations produce and acquire vast volumes of information in the course of their business.
▪ Specifically, under rapidly changing market conditions, acquired information is time-critical and tends to have a shorter lifetime.
interest
▪ I mention Husserl because I think that it may have been via Husserl that Wittgenstein acquired his own interest in intentionality.
▪ Host Marriott Corp. said it will pay $ 112. 5 million to acquire controlling interest in five hotels.
▪ In exchange, Union Jack will acquire a 3.5 percent interest in the Claymore field from Texaco.
▪ He acquired a lasting scientific interest in mucus, possibly augmented by digestive problems of his own.
▪ No existing trading company may acquire an interest exceeding 10 percent in another security trading company.
▪ Roebuck acquiring a two-thirds interest in Watt's patent for his financial help.
▪ The beneficiaries will acquire an equitable interest and, therefore, an equitable lease. 2.
knowledge
▪ For example, how can such a vast quantity of knowledge be acquired?
▪ Physical, logical-mathematical, and social knowledge are not acquired directly but are constructed by the individual.
▪ This issue is important because of the complex nature of such frauds, meaning that proof of actual knowledge is hard to acquire.
▪ Genetic epistemology is the science of how knowledge is acquired.
▪ The distinction between rationalism and empiricism relates to a distinction between knowledge acquired by reason and knowledge acquired by the senses.
▪ But for Aristotle and his followers, the belief held that the only knowledge we can acquire originates in sense-perceptions.
▪ The autonomous learner lacking particular knowledge knows how to acquire that knowledge.
land
▪ He had already acquired some ex-episcopal lands back in 1647-8, in settlement of earlier debts owing to him on the public faith.
▪ Deputy City Manager Bruce Herring said the city is negotiating to acquire land for those two sites.
▪ Quite apart from acquiring the land, he had been charged with getting hold of large quantities of uranium.
▪ It was to enable the government to acquire land sold during the depression to pay off debts.
▪ Joint-venture companies are specifically entitled to acquire land necessary for their own business.
▪ As he acquired further land and office in the north, the affinity inevitably widened.
▪ But all parties agree that Mr Mugabe must follow the laws of his own country in acquiring the land.
opportunity
▪ These shears are not generally available to the public, so take this opportunity to acquire a pair now.
▪ Industrial visits and other opportunities to acquire appropriate experience form part of the course.
▪ She or he would have to spend a year in general practice to have the opportunity to acquire similar skills.
▪ And the opportunities to acquire it are infinite, for power is not limited.
▪ Both should receive official sanction and both require in-service training opportunities to acquire the necessary skills.
▪ It seems I have been presented with an excellent opportunity to acquire merit by serving a holy man in charity.
▪ Employees should be given every opportunity to acquire a stake in the business for which they work.
person
▪ It is no doubt valuable to create an environment in which a person acquires effective behavior rapidly and continues to behave effectively.
▪ A person can acquire the virus from one method and pass it on through another.
▪ Or, of course, it might simply be a habit the person has acquired that has no particular significance.
▪ Essentially, it meant that each person should acquire the self-knowledge concerning when and how he or she learned best.
▪ Without help a person acquires very little moral or ethical behavior under either natural or social contingencies.
▪ That is, did the person acquiring the subject-matter think that he was obtaining hardware or software?
▪ Such voluntary transfers of possession are called bailment, and the person who so acquires possession is a bailee of the goods.
power
▪ On nationalisation, the divisions had acquired around 300 power stations, initially grouping them for management at an intermediate level.
▪ But no sooner had a man acquired a little power than the tyrant in him emerged.
▪ In April local councils acquired an important new power.
▪ I had the feeling that she had suddenly acquired the powers of a clairvoyant.
▪ Nobody inside the movement was permitted to acquire enough power or a high enough profile to challenge de Gaulle successfully.
▪ But his athletic prowess dovetailed with his particular experiences, and his body, for him, acquired almost magical power.
▪ It may be that the old pictographic signs acquired a special magic power associated with the remote past.
▪ In primitive thought and custom, one acquires the powers or characteristics of what one eats.
property
▪ In 1706 Lord Chesterfield acquired the property and demolished the original house.
▪ He had also acquired rights to a property with the intriguing title Shadow on the Sun.
▪ Rights were acquired in literary properties that would never be filmed.
▪ Corporations involved in the escalating race to acquire media properties seek not only expanded profitability but also increasing influence.
▪ Gradually the pairing of this warning to time out leads to the warning itself acquiring some punishing properties.
▪ But some symbols acquire their additional semantic properties from some characteristic they have as actions or things.
▪ Under the first, a sale agreement, the Prudential agreed to acquire a freehold property.
▪ The National Trust acquired this unusual property in 1951, but few records were kept of the garden's early management.
reputation
▪ Mr Customer Smith did however acquire a dubious reputation for dealing in prize goods.
▪ Before long, the firm acquired a reputation as a top provider of programming and debugging services.
▪ How was it, then, that Masailand acquired its reputation for corrupting those sent to rule over it?
▪ The elaborately staged conferences have acquired a reputation for issuing high-sounding communiques urging remedial economic or monetary action.
▪ Transcendental Meditation has never acquired the reputation of a sinister cult, but doubts are sometimes voiced about it.
▪ People will acquire reputations on how well-trained their computers are and how well-groomed their computational ecology is.
▪ We have acquired a reputation as the dumping ground with lightning speed.
skill
▪ This may include identifying additional skills you need to acquire.
▪ This gives new workers time to develop their skills and acquire some clients.
▪ We tend to expect pupils to find words in dictionaries, because we assume it is a skill which is simply acquired.
▪ Foundation skills are acquired in the first five years of life.
▪ They also found that on their return many women were unable to utilize the skills that they had acquired before having children.
▪ Knowing when not to apply the rules is clearly an important skill to acquire.
▪ It is only with thought, practice and feedback that the necessary skills can be acquired.
stake
▪ It acquired its stake in the early 1980s, hoping eventually to acquire the tobacco group.
▪ Disney reportedly has been in talks to acquire a one-third stake in Starwave Corp. for as much as $ 100 million.
▪ Millions of voters have acquired a stake in the wider ownership of shares and homes and a voice in union affairs.
▪ Hongkong Land acquired a 14.9% stake in Trafalgar House and then attempted, but failed, to push its holding to 29.9%.
▪ Mediobanca is being forced to acquire the 10 percent stake after secretly buying that much in October.
▪ Employees should be given every opportunity to acquire a stake in the business for which they work.
▪ Buyers acquire a 50 percent stake in exchange for investing a certain amount of money in the company.
status
▪ Bezannes From no specific mention in the échelle this growth acquired premier cru status in 1985.
▪ Affirmation depends on negation: white is valued at the expense of black; youth acquires status through the devaluation of ageing.
▪ These days the practice of story-telling is so rare that it has acquired the status of an art form.
▪ You first have to acquire non-resident status.
▪ But for most retirees, acquiring unconditional non-resident status can take up to three years.
▪ During the period of the Tudor monarchs in the sixteenth century, Parliament acquired enhanced status.
▪ Some women have acquired status as heroines.
▪ But Kampuchea failed to acquire this status.
student
▪ This proved a vain hope, as the young student soon acquired a following of like-minded people.
▪ The student acquires knowledge, understanding and a range of competencies in a particular domain.
▪ This will safeguard against the student acquiring bad habits in these features of pronunciation.
▪ During the first two years, students acquire a knowledge of both general and vocationally related registers of the languages.
▪ It is misleading if it means simply that students learn how to acquire conventional encyclopaedia-like knowledge for themselves.
▪ A general module which enables the student to acquire basic skills in group music making, using instruments and/or voices.
▪ The written examinations would provide the opportunity for assessing whether the student had acquired a sufficiently analytical approach to the subject.
▪ One polytechnic has resolved that all its humanities degree students shall acquire some appreciation of computers and information technology.
taste
▪ Having acquired the taste, a service career became increasingly attractive to them.
▪ Protective poison, an acquired taste.
▪ It was too fizzy and too gassy to drink and I acquired a taste for real ale.
▪ But the Moodies, propelled by pseudo-symphonic arrangements and mysticism, always were and always will be an acquired taste.
▪ They feared that their troops might acquire a taste for such butchery and become no better than those they fought against.
▪ They are like sushi, maybe an acquired taste.
▪ However, acquiring a taste for less salt may take time in order to become used to a low-salt taste.
▪ I rarely drink in the week, and I've never acquired a taste for wine.
title
▪ The pledgee was immunized against the freight claim because of his failure to acquire full title to the goods.
▪ He went on to acquire titles and estates, becoming conte di Buttigliera and seigneur of Saint-Thomas-de-Coeur.
▪ If A then sells and delivers them to an innocent purchaser, the latter will acquire good title.
▪ Movies acquire new titles in one of two ways.
▪ However, it is always possible that the person who sold him the goods, later acquires the title to them.
▪ These attitudes have acquired their own shorthand titles.
▪ It didn't last, but at least she acquired a title.
▪ Thus some one taking only a pledge can not acquire good title by virtue of this provision.
■ VERB
agree
▪ Learning Co. agreed to be acquired for $ 606 million in cash and stock.
begin
▪ Once they began, they acquired momentum of their own, and the size of the purge made it credible.
▪ And somehow-not solely by osmosis, either-we began acquiring that degree of skill and energy and initiative of quick intelligence.
▪ Intel said it would begin to acquire all outstanding shares of Xircom within the next ten days.
▪ In fact, most began to acquire not only managerial knowledge and skills, but also managerial interests and a managerial temperament.
▪ In 1987 they began to acquire estate agencies.
▪ Balancing these tensions required finely honed knowledge and skill that the new managers had only begun to acquire.
▪ It is at this point that the nation state begins to acquire a psychological as well as a purely administrative significance.
▪ On 8 June, Caparo began to acquire Fidelity's shares.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ AC Transit recently acquired 70 new buses equipped with wheelchair lifts.
▪ In 1998 the business was acquired by a Dutch company.
▪ It took him a long time to acquire the skills he needed to become a professional artist.
▪ Many inner cities have acquired reputations for violent crime.
▪ NTN acquired the rights to broadcast game data from football games in 1987.
▪ Research helps us acquire new insight on the causes of diseases.
▪ Robinson spent $20 million to acquire the symphony hall.
▪ The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has recently acquired several paintings by Salvador Dali.
▪ The statue was acquired at great expense by the City Corporation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He has acquired an autonomy and influence staggering even by the standards of a country where anomalies are institutionalised.
▪ Official prices were low, but you had to pay with time or bribes to actually acquire anything.
▪ Once slated for thousands of homes, the Daley Ranch was acquired by the city for $ 21 million in January.
▪ Others acquired a harder outer membrane to later become skin-like materials.
▪ They acquired a Tucson resort in 1991 and a Hyatt hotel in Houston in 1992.
▪ They acquired joint and exclusive occupation of the flat in consideration of periodical payments and they therefore acquired a tenancy jointly.
▪ What concerns them is the risk that engineered plants might acquire weedy traits and escape from cultivation.