Definition of Acquires

1. Verb. (third-person singular of acquire) ¹

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Definition of Acquires

1. acquire [v] - See also: acquire

Lexicographical Neighbors of Acquires

acquired nevus
acquired pellicle
acquired reflex
acquired sensitivity
acquired taste
acquired tastes
acquired toxoplasmosis
acquired trichoepithelioma
acquiree
acquirees
acquirement
acquirements
acquirer
acquirers
acquires (current term)
acquirest
acquireth
acquiries
acquiring
acquiring financial institution
acquiring financial institutions
acquiry
acquis
acquis communautaire
acquisite
acquisition
acquisition agreement
acquisition debt
acquisitional

Literary usage of Acquires

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law of Baron and Femme: Of Parent and Child, Guardian and Ward, Master by Tapping Reeve, Amasa Junius Parker, Charles E. Baldwin (1882)
"THE RIGHT WHICH THE HUSBAND acquires TO THE PERSONAL ... THE husband, by marriage, acquires an absolute title to all the personal property of the wife, ..."

2. A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter (1909)
"COMSTOCK MANIPULATES MARGARET AND BILLY acquires A RESIDENCE -*,, SATURDAY morning Elnora helped her mother with the work. When she had finished Mrs. ..."

3. The Principles of Chemistry by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev, Thomas Atkinson Lawson (1897)
"In dissolving, a solid substance acquires a mobility of parts, and a gas loses its elasticity, and therefore reactions often take placo in solutions which ..."

4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1857)
"... which one does not succeed to as the heir ofanother, but acquires in his own lifetime by purchase, donation, or other singular title — legally speaking, ..."

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