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noun

acquiring

the act of coming to own or obtain something

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Six example sentences with acquiring, each labelled with its topic.

  • The museum's acquiring of the drawings took three years of quiet negotiation with a family that had never sold anything.

    Art

  • Their whole strategy was the acquiring of small teams, and by spring the company had swallowed six of them.

    Startups

  • The acquiring of the poet's letters filled the archive's budget for two years and left nothing for the reading room.

    Literature

  • The acquiring of a controlling stake took the investor three years of quiet purchases through a dozen brokers.

    Finance

  • The acquiring of Louisiana in 1803 doubled the young republic's territory for roughly fifteen million dollars.

    History

  • The acquiring of a good domain name can cost more than the software behind it, as many founders learn late.

    Technology

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