Usually means: Eager to acquire possessions, wealth.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. acquisitive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. acquisitive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. acquisitive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. acquisitive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. acquisitive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Acquisitive, acquisitive: Wordnik
  7. acquisitive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. acquisitive: Wiktionary
  9. acquisitive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. acquisitive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. acquisitive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Acquisitive, acquisitive: Dictionary.com
  13. Acquisitive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. acquisitive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. acquisitive: Rhymezone
  16. acquisitive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. acquisitive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. acquisitive: Free Dictionary
  19. acquisitive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. acquisitive: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. acquisitive: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acquisitive: Legal dictionary

(Note: See acquisitively as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (obsolete) Acquired.
adjective:  Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring, greedy.
adjective:  Dispositioned toward acquiring and retaining information.

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