Usually means: People known but not close.
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  1. acquaintances: Merriam-Webster
  2. acquaintances: Collins English Dictionary
  3. acquaintances: Vocabulary.com
  4. Acquaintances, acquaintance's, acquaintances: Wordnik
  5. acquaintances: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. acquaintances: Wiktionary
  7. acquaintances: Dictionary.com
  8. acquaintances: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. acquaintances: Legal dictionary

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  1. acquaintances: Encyclopedia

(Note: See acquaintance as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (acquaintance)

noun:  (uncountable) A state of being acquainted with a person; originally indicating friendship, intimacy, but now suggesting a slight knowledge less deep than that of friendship; acquaintanceship.
noun:  (countable) A person or persons with whom one is acquainted.
noun:  (uncountable) Such people collectively; one's circle of acquaintances (with plural concord).
noun:  Personal knowledge (with a specific subject etc.).
▸ Also see acquaintance


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