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acquirement

/əˈkwaɪə(ɹ)mənt/

acquirement noun: something that has been acquired; an attainment or accomplishment.

Noun

acquirement (countable and uncountable, plural acquirements)

  1. (archaic, in plural) Something that has been acquired; an attainment or accomplishment.
    • […] his acquirements by industrie were […] enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature.1630, John Hayward, The Life, and Riagne of King Edward the Sixt, London: John Partridge, page 4
    • If she can think, that the part she has had in your education, and your own admirable talents and acquirements, are to be thrown away upon such a worthless creature as Solmes, I could heartily quarrel with her.1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter XXVII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume I, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 177
    Synonyms:
    acquisition
  2. The act or fact of acquiring something; acquisition.
    • […] rules for the acquirement of a taste […]1712 June 29 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, June 19, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 409; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New...
    • One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought […].1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

acquirement meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

acquirement in Urdu

حاصل کمائی, حصول اکتساب, اِکتَساب کا عمَل, دَریابی

acquirement in Malayalam

acquirement
പ്രതിപത്തി pratipatti

acquirement in Kannada

ಪಡೆಯುವಿಕೆ, ಗಳಿಸುವಿಕೆ, ಸಂಪಾದಿಸುವಿಕೆ, ಹೊಂದುವಿಕೆ, ಸ್ವಾಧೀನಪಡಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವಿಕೆ, ಅರ್ಜಿಸುವಿಕೆ

Synonyms of acquirement

Forms of acquirement

pluralacquirements

Origin of acquirement

From acquire + -ment.

Words formed from acquirement

Questions about acquirement

What does acquirement mean?
Acquirement means something that has been acquired; an attainment or accomplishment.
What is acquirement in Urdu?
Acquirement in Urdu is حاصل کمائی, حصول اکتساب, اِکتَساب کا عمَل. See Acquirement meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is acquirement?
Acquirement is a noun.
How do you pronounce acquirement?
Acquirement is pronounced /əˈkwaɪə(ɹ)mənt/.
What is the plural of acquirement?
The plural of acquirement is acquirements.

Words near acquirement in the dictionary

  1. acquired immunodeficiency syndromes
  2. acquired taste
  3. acquired tastes
  4. acquiree
  5. acquirees
  6. acquirement
  7. acquirements
  8. acquirenda
  9. acquirendum
  10. acquirer
  11. acquirers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: acquirement (page history and authors); acquirement (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); പ്രതിപത്തി (Malayalam) (page history and authors); acquirement (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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