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:
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.
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:
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.
Despite the fundamental role phonetic representations play in language acquisition, there has been very little research on their development in a bilingual context.
A number of protective mechanisms associated with seed desiccation tolerance have been identified through studies on acquisition and loss of desiccation tolerance in orthodox seeds.
Therefore, with this easier criterion, the sequence from visual perspective taking to pronoun acquisition was reversed, contradicting our first two hypotheses.
Could it account for language acquisition and the ability to talk about things that are far removed in time and space?
The existence of discrete levels of critical water potential is suggestive of specific stresses that cells must accommodate during the acquisition of desiccation tolerance.
The following account, while telling something of their story, looks at how such a private 'language' can impact negatively on second-language acquisition.
The changing nature of the cognitive representation of words as reading acquisition took place was discussed.
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.
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