Wat betekent acquire in het Engels en wat is de definitie van acquire?

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acquire Betekenis, Definitie, Uitspraak, Grammatica & Synoniemen❤️

0 to get or buy something:
- He acquired the firm in 2008.
- I was wearing a newly/recently acquired jacket.
- I seem to have acquired (= have got although I don't know how) two copies of this book.
- He has acquired a reputation for being difficult to work with.
1 to obtain or begin to have something:
- His family acquired the property in 1985.
- She acquired her love of the outdoors as a child.
2 to buy or take control of a company or part of a company, often by buying shares in it:
- They acquired a chain of about 20 phone shops.
- acquire control/ownership of sth He had just acquired control of the New York Times.
- be acquired by sb/sth Mutual of New York was later acquired by French insurance conglomerate AXA.
- Many checkout staff acquired shares in the company.
3 to get the legal right to use or do something:
- acquire rights to sth The broadcaster did not disclose exactly how it acquired rights to the material.
4 to get something that is important to your business:
- We've acquired a million new customers in a year.
- It's a good time to acquire new talent.
5 to get something that is important to you in your job:
- Aptitude tests attempt to judge a person's ability to acquire new skills.

As people grow older, their faces acquire more character.
She acquired the painting at a jumble sale for the princely sum of 25p.
When she married Giles, she acquired a ready-made family - two teenage sons and a daughter.
I didn't like red wine before but I acquired a taste for it while I was living in France.
He acquired a reputation as an entertaining speaker.
Coordination problems abound, and their solutions are facilitated when players have the ability to quickly acquire expectations about fellow players' behavior.
When this occurs, the debate is no longer purely scientific, but acquires an "ideological" facet.
The share it acquired depended on the daughters' present circumstances, on whether they were unmarried, married, or returned from marriage as a widow or divorcée.