Usually means: Gain possession or control of something.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word acquire:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. acquire: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. acquire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. acquire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. acquire: Collins English Dictionary
  5. acquire: Vocabulary.com
  6. Acquire, acquire: Wordnik
  7. acquire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. acquire: Wiktionary
  9. acquire: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. acquire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. acquire: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. acquire: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Acquire (company), Acquire (game developer), Acquire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Acquire: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. acquire: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. acquire: Rhymezone
  17. acquire: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. acquire: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. acquire: Free Dictionary
  20. acquire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. acquire, acquire (radar): Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. acquire: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. acquire: Dictionary.com
  24. acquire: Online Etymology Dictionary

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. acquire: Legal dictionary
  3. acquire: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acquire: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acquire: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ACQUIRE: Acronym Finder
  2. acquire: Idioms

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

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)

(Note: See acquired as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To get.
verb:  (transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own
verb:  (medicine) To become affected by an illness.
verb:  (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.

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