acquire
acquire Lexical Profile
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• verb
To buy or obtain an asset, object, or company for oneself.
"The conglomerate plans to acquire several smaller tech startups over the next fiscal year."
To learn or develop a skill, habit, taste, or quality over time through effort or experience.
"Children acquire language remarkably fast when immersed in a bilingual environment."
To come to have or achieve a particular reputation, status, or characteristic.
"Over the decades, the historic theater has acquired a reputation as a cultural landmark."
To detect, locate, and lock onto a target or signal using radar, sonar, or an optical sensor.
"The satellite dish took several minutes to acquire the weak signal from the deep-space probe."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English aqueren, borrowed from Old French aquerre and reshaped after Latin acquīrere ('to get in addition, accumulate'), formed from ad- ('to') and quaerere ('to seek, obtain').