Definitions of acquisition on the Web:

• the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something; "the acquisition of wealth"; "the acquisition of one company by another"
• something acquired; "a recent acquisition by the museum"
• skill: an ability that has been acquired by training
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• Contracting with the U.S. Government is based on many of the same principles as commercial contracting and can be very profitable, but is ...
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• Learning is acquiring new knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, preferences or understanding, and may involve synthesizing different types of information. The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals and some machines. Progress over time tends to follow learning curves.
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• Acquisition is a Gnutella-based peer-to-peer and BitTorrent client for Mac OS X. It is based on LimeWire and is a shareware product, priced from ...
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• Military Acquisition manages a nation's investments in technologies, programs, and product support necessary to achieve its National Security Strategy and support its Armed Forces. ...
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• Language acquisition is the study of the processes through which learners acquire language. By itself, language acquisition refers to first ...
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• Acquisitions - The phrase mergers and acquisitions (abbreviated M&A) refers to the aspect of corporate strategy, corporate finance and management dealing with ...
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• acquisitor - one who acquires
  en.wiktionary.org/wiki/acquisitor

• One company acquiring a controlling interest in another company
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• The process of acquiring the materials that comprise the library's collection.
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• Obtaining control of another corporation by purchasing all or a majority of its outstanding shares, or by purchasing its assets.
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• The purchase of one corporation by another, through either the purchase of its shares, or the purchase of its assets.
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• When one company acquires another company. The company, that is acquired is known as target firm. The company, which acquires is called acquiring company. ...
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