acquisition Значение & определение

Значение на acquisition на български

• 0 the process of getting something:

  • The acquisition of huge amounts of data has helped our research enormously.

  • Language acquisition (= learning a language without being taught) starts at a very young age.

  • The museum's latest acquisition is a four-million-dollar sculpture.

  • I like your earrings - are they a recent acquisition? (= Did you get them recently?)

• 1 the act of obtaining or beginning to have something, or something obtained:

  • [ C ] The museum has made several recent acquisitions.

  • [ U ] The acquisition of a new language requires a commitment of time and effort.

• 2 something that is bought by a company, such as another company, a building, or a piece of land:

  • complete/make an acquisition Management intend to use the cash to make acquisitions.

  • finance/fund an acquisition The company will fund the acquisition from its existing cash resources.

  • big/large/major acquisitions If the company doesn't make any big acquisitions this year, it will hand back cash to shareholders.

  • a potential/proposed/recent acquisition

  • Investment banks were changing rapidly into financial supermarkets whose business increasingly revolved around mergers and acquisitions.

• 3 the act of buying something such as a company, a building, or a piece of land:

  • acquisition of sth There were many additional costs related to the company's acquisition of Walker Software.

  • land acquisition

  • A spokesman confirmed that the company was in acquisition talks.

• 4 the process of getting something:

  • acquisition of sth System changes will lead to the modification of the project and the acquisition of new resources and skills.

  • Hong Kong manufacturers are meeting the challenge through effective procurement and technology acquisition.