acquire
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
acquire/əˈkwʌɪə(r)/
▶verb come to possess (something).
■ learn or develop (a skill, quality, etc.).
– phrases
acquired taste a thing that one learns to like over time.
acquired taste a thing that one learns to like over time.
– derivatives
acquirable adjective,
acquiree noun (Finance),
acquirement noun,
acquirer noun.
acquirable adjective,
acquiree noun (Finance),
acquirement noun,
acquirer noun.
– origin ME acquere, from OFr. aquerre, based on L. acquirere ‘get in addition’, from ad- ‘to’ + quaerere ‘seek’.
'acquire' also found in these Oxford entries:
acquisitive
- beggar-my-neighbour
- biofeedback
- blackjack
- chequebook journalism
- collect
- come
- cultivate
- cut
- dawn raid
- electronegative
- electrophilic
- equites
- eye
- fluidize
- get
- -i
- intelligence
- interest
- internalize
- lay
- learn
- luck
- master
- net
- obtain
- pick
- poach
- polarize
- practise
- pre-empt
- reacquire
- read
- rearm
- resupply
- scrip
- study
- take
- tan
- usucaption
- win
