acquisition
UK/ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/US/ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/
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acquisition noun: the act or process of acquiring.
Noun
acquisition (countable and uncountable, plural acquisitions)
- The act or process of acquiring.
- The acquisition of sports equipment can be fun in itself.
- Synonyms:
- accession, acquirement, procuration, procurement, obtainment
- The thing acquired or gained; a gain.
- That graphite tennis racquet is quite an acquisition.
- Synonyms:
- accession, acquirement
- The process of sampling signals that measure real world physical conditions and converting these signals into digital numeric values that can be manipulated by a computer.
acquisition meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
acquisition in Hindi
- act or process of acquiring
- अधिग्रहण adhigrahaṇ, अभिग्रहण abhigrahaṇ
- thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain
- अधिग्रहित adhigrahit
acquisition in Tamil
- அதிகாரப்படி உரிமை பெறு, கையகப்படுத்தல், கையகப்படுத்துகை, கையகப்படுத்துதல், முயன்றடைதல், ஏற்றுக்கொள்ளல்
acquisition in Marathi
- अधिग्रहण
acquisition in Urdu
- اندوختہ, حصول, وصول
More languagesFewer languages
- acquisition in Bengali
- অধিগ্রহণ
- acquisition in Telugu
- సంపాదనము sampādanamu
- acquisition in Malayalam
- ലബ്ധം labdhaṁ
- acquisition in Kannada
- ಸಂಪಾದನೆ, ಗಳಿಕೆ, ಕೆಯ್ಕೊಳುಹ, ಕೈಕೊಳುಹ
- acquisition in Punjabi
- ਲਭਤ labhat
- acquisition in Odia
- ଲାଭ lābha
- acquisition in Sanskrit
- सामन् sā́man, प्रयुज् prayuj, नीति nīti, वित्त vittá
- acquisition in Nepali
- अधिग्रहण, अधिग्रहन
- acquisition in Arabic
- اِكْتِسَاب iktisāb
- acquisition in Malay
- perolehan
- acquisition in Indonesian
- akuisisi, pemerolehan
Examples of acquisition in a sentence
- Completion of a sidequest often results in the acquisition of money or items that are otherwise unavailable, or unlocks another sidequest.
- Moreover, widespread microbivory in plants for nutrient acquisition from microbes could have far reaching consequences.
- This group constitutes around 9 percent of the total number of acquisitions of Dutch nationality through option.
Synonyms of acquisition
Antonyms
Forms of acquisition
| plural | acquisitions |
|---|---|
| alternative misspelling | aquisition |
Origin of acquisition
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French acquisicion, from Latin acquisītiō, from acquīrō, acquīrere; equivalent to acquire + -ition.
Words formed from acquisition
- acquisitional
- acquisition debt
- acquisitioned
- acquisition feeding time
- acquisitionism
- acquisitionist
- acquisition prize
- acquisition time
- compulsory acquisition
- data acquisition
- deacquisition
- gear acquisition syndrome
- macroacquisition
- misacquisition
- nonacquisition
- postacquisition
- preacquisition
- reacquisition
- second-language acquisition
- statistical language acquisition
- third language acquisition
Phrases with acquisition
Words that rhyme with acquisition
- partition
- position
- proposition
- transition
- mission
- condition
- commission
- transmission
- addition
- admission
- attrition
- expedition
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- remission
- rendition
- exhibition
- submission
- ignition
- inhibition
- inquisition
- intromission
- magician
- omission
- suspicion
- tradition
- dentition
- edition
- patrician
- politician
- tuition
- circumposition
- decommission
- fission
- nutrition
- perdition
- permission
- phonetician
- prohibition
- superposition
- volition
- academician
- aesthetician
- Apician
- clinician
- coalition
- disquisition
- emission
- fruition
- Galician
- on a mission
- optician
- postposition
- premonition
- recommission
- retransition
- sedition
- superstition
- titian
- abligurition
- admonition
- adposition
Questions about acquisition
- What does acquisition mean?
- Acquisition means the act or process of acquiring.
- What is acquisition in Hindi?
- Acquisition in Hindi is अधिग्रहण (adhigrahaṇ), अभिग्रहण (abhigrahaṇ), अधिग्रहित (adhigrahit). See Acquisition meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is acquisition?
- Acquisition is a noun.
- How do you pronounce acquisition?
- Acquisition is pronounced /ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of acquisition?
- The plural of acquisition is acquisitions.
Words near acquisition in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: acquisition (page history and authors); acquisition (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); acquisition (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); acquisition (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); acquisition (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); సంపాదనము (Telugu) (page history and authors); ലബ്ധം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); acquisition (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਲਭਤ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); ଲାଭ (Odia) (page history and authors); नीति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); acquisition (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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