0 the process of getting something: --
I like your earrings - are they a recent acquisition? (= Did you get them recently?)
The museum's latest acquisition is a four-million-dollar sculpture.
Language acquisition (= learning a language without being taught) starts at a very young age.
The acquisition of huge amounts of data has helped our research enormously.
1 the act of obtaining or beginning to have something, or something obtained: --
2 something that is bought by a company, such as another company, a building, or a piece of land: --
Investment banks were changing rapidly into financial supermarkets whose business increasingly revolved around mergers and acquisitions.
big/large/major acquisitions If the company doesn't make any big acquisitions this year, it will hand back cash to shareholders.
finance/fund an acquisition The company will fund the acquisition from its existing cash resources.
complete/make an acquisition Management intend to use the cash to make acquisitions.
3 the act of buying something such as a company, a building, or a piece of land: --
4 the process of getting something: --
Hong Kong manufacturers are meeting the challenge through effective procurement and technology acquisition.
acquisition of sth System changes will lead to the modification of the project and the acquisition of new resources and skills.
Just as important as the need for a sufficient income was the acquisition of the skills required to run a household.
Attempts to alter practice have generally focused on the acquisition of knowledge and skills, and although important, these are not sufficient.
For example, there are a number of suggestions in the literature that different children may show very different patterns of error use in question acquisition.
The long-term solution to the acquisition of adequate scientific manpower is training in the countries concerned.
At the same time, urban life-styles and the acquisition of new rights and opportunities radically changed women's expectations and collective self-image.
It is ideal for classroom discussion and should be read by all students of bilingualism and language acquisition.
A set of precursors to cluster acquisition was thereby identified and shown to be recursive.
One of the theoretical limitations of existing second-language acquisition theories is the dependence upon the notion of integrativeness to explain success in second-language acquisition.
