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Definition of Acquisitions
1. acquisition [n] - See also: acquisition
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acquisitions
Literary usage of Acquisitions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Titcomb's Letters to Young People, Single and Married by Josiah Gilbert] [Holland (1866)
"A woman may have many acquisitions, and no accomplishments, in the usual meaning
of that word, and vice versa. As the life of woman goes in th is country, ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reportsby Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"... debtor and all his future acquisitions from his contract; because he is
permitted to plead it in bar of any remedy which can be instituted against him, ..."
3. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1882)
"This, it should be noted, was an acquisition which could hardly fail to lead to
further acquisitions. The geographical characteristic of the Prussian do- ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of the Domestic Relations: Embracing Husband and Wife by James Schouler (1895)
"Acquisitions from Husband not BO much Favored.— But as concerns acquisitions of
the wife from her husband, the married women's acts by no means concur in ..."
5. Russia and Its Crisis by Pavel Nikolaevich Mili︠u︡kov (1905)
"I The Muscovite Dukedom be- • fore John III (1462), The acquisitions of Peter
the F "3 The acquisitions of Paul « The acquisitions of John III ..."