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acqhire

acqhire is the alternative form of acquihire.

Meaning of acquihire

Noun

acquihire (plural acquihires)

  1. (slang) An acquisition of a company to recruit its employees, rather than for its products or services.
    • Then, in August, they bought Push Pop press, which was seen as an acquihire of designers Kimon Tsinteris and Mike Matas, who designed several of key pieces of the iPhone interface.2013 May 2, Alexis C. Madrigal, “How Facebook Designs the 'Perfect Empty Vessel' for Your Mind”, in The Atlantic

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Forms of acqhire

Noun
pluralacqhires
Verb
third-person singular presentacqhires
present participleacqhiring
past participleacqhired
pastacqhired

Questions about acqhire

What is acqhire the alternative form of?
Acqhire is the alternative form of acquihire.

Words near acqhire in the dictionary

  1. ACPO
  2. ACPR
  3. ACPS
  4. acpt
  5. acq.
  6. acqhire
  7. acqhired
  8. acqhires
  9. acqhiring
  10. acqua alta
  11. Acquackanonk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: acqhire (page history and authors); acquihire (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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