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adjective

acquisitive

eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas

In a sentence

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

  • The museum's most acquisitive decade added four hundred paintings, many bought faster than the curators could catalog them.

    Art

  • He describes an acquisitive middle class that measured its progress by the size of its garages.

    Economics

  • Children go through an acquisitive phase around age four, hoarding pebbles and bottle caps in secret drawers.

    Psychology

  • The acquisitive firm bought six rivals in three years and then spent the next five trying to make them fit together.

    Business

  • The acquisitive merchant in the novel counts his warehouses each night and still goes to bed feeling he owns too little.

    Literature

  • Acquisitive players fill every chest slot with loot they will never use, then complain the inventory is too small.

    Gaming

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