Usually means: Obtaining ownership of an asset.
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We found 56 dictionaries that define the word acquisition:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. acquisition: Merriam-Webster
  2. acquisition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. acquisition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. acquisition: Collins English Dictionary
  5. acquisition: Vocabulary.com
  6. Acquisition, acquisition: Wordnik
  7. acquisition: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. acquisition: Wiktionary
  9. acquisition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. acquisition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. acquisition: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. acquisition: Dictionary.com
  13. acquisition: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. acquisition: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Acquisition (contract law), Acquisition (disambiguation), Acquisition (forensic process), Acquisition (linguistic), Acquisition (military), Acquisition (software), Acquisition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Acquisition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. acquisition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. acquisition: Rhymezone
  19. Acquisition: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. acquisition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. acquisition: FreeDictionary.org
  22. acquisition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. acquisition: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. acquisition: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. acquisition: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acquisition: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. acquisition: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. acquisition: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. ACQUISITION: Accounting Glossary
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Acquisition: bizterms.net
  8. Acquisition: Moneyterms
  9. Health Insurance Glossary (No longer online)
  10. acquisition: Finance-Glossary.com
  11. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  12. Acquisition: Investopedia
  13. Acquisition (psychology), acquisition: Legal dictionary
  14. acquisition: Financial dictionary
  15. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  16. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  17. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. acquisition: Netlingo
  2. Acquisition (linguistic), Acquisition (psychology), acquisition: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Acquisition (psychology), acquisition: Medical dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Archeological Collections Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acquisition: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See acquisitional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act or process of acquiring.
noun:  The thing acquired or gained; a gain.
noun:  (computing) The process of sampling signals that measure real world physical conditions and converting these signals into digital numeric values that can be manipulated by a computer.

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