acquisition

In a sentence

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

• The acquisition of the smaller rival closed in March, and its forty employees moved into the third floor by June.

  Business

• The museum's acquisition of the bronze took nine months of negotiation and a loan from three private donors.

  Art

• The colony's acquisition of the harbor changed regional trade, since ships no longer sailed two hundred miles further south.

  History

• The acquisition was paid for mostly in stock, so the target's owners now hold six percent of the larger company.

  Finance

• For most of the founders the acquisition was the exit they had planned since the first pitch deck.

  Startups

• The acquisition of the chip designer gave the phone maker control over the one component it had always bought from rivals.

  Technology

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More Academic words

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• issuing
• concluding
• conventional
• innovative