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# acquisition

«acquisition» in Mova's school dictionary: **Something you have got or bought, especially something…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an acquisition, acquisitions; also uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Something you have got or bought, especially something new and valuable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acquisition/#m1)

2) The act of getting something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acquisition/#m2)

3) (business) When one company buys another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acquisition/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school: language acquisition means how children learn a language. In museums and libraries: new acquisitions are new items. In business news: one firm's acquisition of another. Phrases: language acquisition, a new acquisition, the acquisition of.

### examples

- The museum's newest acquisition is a dinosaur skull. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acquisition/#x1)
- Language acquisition happens fast in young children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acquisition/#x2)
- The bike was his proudest acquisition. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acquisition/#x3)
- The company announced the acquisition of a smaller firm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acquisition/#x4)
- The library has a list of recent acquisitions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acquisition/#x5)
- The acquisition of new skills takes practice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acquisition/#x6)
- Among these, the tales reported by Mrs. Balfour, with a thorough knowledge of the peasants' mind and mode of speech, are a veritable acquisition. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acquisition/#x7)

### note

Verb: acquire. Spelling: acqu-, not aqu-. Formal word; everyday: buy, get. Do not confuse with "accusation" (saying someone did wrong).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «acquisition» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/acquisition/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.