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Definition of Acquisition |
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Acquisition
The act or process of acquiring. The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition. Related Definitions: Acquired, Acquirement, Acquiring, Acquisition, Act, An, As, Gain, Gained, Is, Learning, Of, Or, Process, The, Thing |
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Acquisition Quotations
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. Dwight D. Eisenhower We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. Dwight D. Eisenhower To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. Jane Austen The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live. Oliver Wendell Holmes For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. Lucius Annaeus Seneca Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. Jean Piaget The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. Rene Descartes Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. Bertrand Russell Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character. P. G. Wodehouse On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory. Meriwether Lewis |
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Acquisition Translations
acquisition in Danish is erhvervelse, erhverv acquisition in Dutch is acquisitie acquisition in French is achat, acquisition acquisition in German is Erwerb, Erfassung, Erwerbung acquisition in Italian is rilevamento acquisition in Norwegian is ervervelse |
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