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acquirest

acquirest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of acquire.

Meaning of acquire

Verb

acquire (third-person singular simple present acquires, present participle acquiring, simple past and past participle acquired)

  1. (transitive) To get.
  2. (transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
    • to acquire a skill
  3. To become affected by an illness.
    Synonyms:
    contract, catch, get
  4. To sample signals and convert them into digital values.
  5. (Canada, US) To begin tracking a mobile target with a particular detector or sight, generally with the implication that an attack on the target thereby becomes possible.

Origin of acquirest

From acquire + -est.

Questions about acquirest

What is acquirest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Acquirest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of acquire.

Words near acquirest in the dictionary

  1. acquirenda
  2. acquirendum
  3. acquirer
  4. acquirers
  5. acquires
  6. acquirest
  7. acquireth
  8. acquiries
  9. acquiring
  10. acquiring financial institution
  11. acquiring financial institutions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: acquirest (page history and authors); acquire (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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