| 单词 | acquire |
| 释义 | acquire (once / 86 pages) 1v 2v To acquire means to get or come to own something. You acquire an education by your own effort. You acquire a painting by paying for it, or when someone gives it you. You acquire a sense of calm in crisis through experience. The list of things you can acquire includes: an object, a trait, a skill, or an ability. An acquired taste is something that people usually don't like when they first experience it, but later they come to enjoy it, such as raw clams or marmite. The verb acquire was borrowed from Latin acquīrere "to add to," from the prefix ad- "at, toward" plus quaerere "to seek, get." WORD FAMILYacquire: acquirable, acquired, acquirer, acquires, acquiring, acquisition, acquisitive+/acquired: acquiredly/acquirer: acquirers/acquisition: acquisitions/acquisitive: acquisitively, acquisitiveness, unacquisitive USAGE EXAMPLESHe said the conservancy's ultimate plan is to acquire the property — whose market value is a matter of dispute — and manage it for public use. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) ‘We are seeing new attempts by China to acquire companies and technology based on their government’s interests—not commercial objectives.’ Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) The state Department of Natural Resources says it will seek money from lawmakers to help acquire land. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v come into the possession of something concrete or abstract They acquired a new pet Syn|Hypo get find, get, incur, obtain, receive receive a specified treatment (abstract) isolate obtain in pure form get back, win backrecover something or somebody that appeared to be lost express, extract, press outobtain from a substance, as by mechanical action capture, catchcapture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping come by, come intoobtain, especially accidentally buy, purchaseobtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction charter, engage, hire, lease, rent, takeengage for service under a term of contract have, receiveget something; come into possession of turnget by buying and selling buyacquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange findobtain through effort or management glomseize upon or latch onto something come upon, enter upon, luck intotake possession of come up, find, get hold, line upget something or somebody for a specific purpose accept, have, takereceive willingly something given or offered obtaincome into possession of find, recover, regain, retrieveget or find back; recover the use of catchget or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly recoup, recover, recuperateregain or make up for reclaim, repossessclaim back find, regaincome upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost gain, winwin something through one's efforts bring in, clear, earn, gain, make, pull in, realise, realize, take inearn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages earn, garneracquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions benefit, gain, profitderive a benefit from partake, partake in, sharehave, give, or receive a share of preemptacquire for oneself before others can do so preemptgain possession of by prior right or opportunity, especially so as to obtain the right to buy (land) call for, collect, gather up, pick upgather or collect inheritobtain from someone after their death borrowget temporarily pick upget in addition, as an increase getacquire as a result of some effort or action pollget the votes of preisolateisolate beforehand carrysecure the passage or adoption (of bills and motions) hunt, hunt down, run, track downpursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) dig up, excavate, turn upfind by digging in the ground reamsqueeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer froghunt frogs for food bagcapture or kill, as in hunting batfowlcatch birds by temporarily blinding them ratcatch rats, especially with dogs ensnare, entrap, snare, trammel, trapcatch in or as if in a trap take in, take upaccept extort, wring fromget or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner kiteget credit or money by using a bad check hit, stumbleencounter by chance buy back, repurchasebuy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away takebuy, select getpurchase subscribe, subscribe to, takereceive or obtain regularly hustleget by trying hard acceptreceive (a report) officially, as from a committee fencereceive stolen goods accept, admit, take, take onadmit into a group or community welcomeaccept gladly honor, honouraccept as pay sourceget (a product) from another country or business procure, secureget by special effort extractget despite difficulties or obstacles take outobtain by legal or official process get in, get intosecure a place in a college, university, etc. eke out, squeeze outobtain with difficulty eke out, squeeze outmake by laborious and precarious means accessobtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer graduatereceive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies bum, cadge, grub, mooch, spongeask for and get free; be a parasite buy out, buy up, take overtake over ownership of; of corporations and companies distrainlegally take something in place of a debt payment foreclosesubject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage profit, turn a profitmake a profit; gain money or materially cash in ontake advantage of or capitalize on profiteermake an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods capitalise, capitalize, take advantagedraw advantages from rake offtake money from an illegal transaction feelfind by testing or cautious exploration locate, turn updiscover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining attain, chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, discover, fall upon, happen upon, light upon, strikefind unexpectedly pick upbuy casually or spontaneously cozencheat or trick bring home, take homeearn as a salary or wage rake in, shovel inearn large sums of money letterwin an athletic letter pyramidenlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts clear, net, sack, sack upmake as a net profit grossearn before taxes, expenses, etc. bear, pay, yieldbring in derive, gainobtain rout out, rout upget or find by searching cut inallow someone to have a share or profit inheritreceive by genetic transmission shopdo one's shopping buy food, take outpurchase prepared food to be eaten at home adopt, borrow, take over, take uptake up and practice as one's own snagget by acting quickly and smartly impulse-buybuy on impulse without proper reflection grabobtain illegally or unscrupulously catch up with, make upmake up work that was missed due to absence at a later point 2v gain knowledge or skills Children acquire language at an amazing rate Syn|Hypo larn, learn relearn learn something again, as after having forgotten or neglected it catch uplearn belatedly; find out about something after it happened absorb, assimilate, ingest, take intake up mentally hit the books, studylearn by reading books imbibereceive into the mind and retain con, learn, memorise, memorizecommit to memory; learn by heart bone, bone up, cram, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot upstudy intensively, as before an exam 3v gain through experience I acquired a strong aversion to television Syn|Hyper develop, evolve develop, get, grow, produce come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) developelaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme develop, explicate, formulateelaborate, as of theories and hypotheses developgenerate gradually change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 4v win something through one's efforts I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper gain, win lose fail to get or obtain cozen cheat or trick get come into the possession of something concrete or abstract 5v take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect Syn|Hypo|Hyper adopt, assume, take, take on re-assume take on again, as after a time lapse change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 6v come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper develop, get, grow, produce develop, evolve gain through experience feather, fledge grow feathers regrowgrow anew or continue growth after an injury or interruption springdevelop suddenly sprout, stockput forth and grow sprouts or shoots stool, tillergrow shoots in the form of stools or tillers leafproduce leaves, of plants podproduce pods, of plants teethegrow teeth; cut the baby teeth pupatedevelop into a pupa get up, work updevelop cuthave grow through the gums change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature v locate (a moving entity) by means of a tracking system such as radar Hyper locate, situate determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey |
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