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acquire
Pronunciation: /əˈkwī(ə)r/
verb [with object]
Buy or obtain (an object or asset) for oneself.
• Learn or develop (a skill, habit, or quality):
you must acquire the rudiments of Greek
I’ve never acquired a taste for whiskey
• Achieve (a particular reputation) as a result of one’s behavior or activities.
acquire: in phrases
acquired taste
• A thing that one has come to like only through experience:
pumpkin pie is an acquired taste
acquire: derivatives
acquirable
adjective
acquirer
noun
acquire: origin
late Middle English acquere, from Old French aquerre, based on Latin acquirere 'get in addition', from ad- 'to' + quaerere 'seek'. The English spelling was modified ( circa1600) by association with the Latin word
(Definition from Oxford Dictionaries Online © Oxford University Press 2014)
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