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acquiring

adjective as in realizing

adjective as in receiving

noun as in amassment

noun as in buying

noun as in procuring

noun as in purchasing

noun as in receipt

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The Wizards acquired Michigan State’s four-year point guard Wednesday in a draft-night deal that sent the rights to Washington’s No.

Vox Media kicked off the merger wave in September 2019 when it announced plans to acquire New York Media, publisher of New York magazine.

He will also continue in his role as a part-owner of TSM, after increasing the stake he acquired as part of a groundbreaking two-year contract he signed in 2019.

Matthew Clark, Hogan’s chief of staff at the time, said he would contact some of the labs, but made clear that acquiring test kits was not his first concern.

With his newfound free time, the father of two vowed to acquire an untapped skill every week.

She began operating out of her home garage in 1980, slowly acquiring the many props and tools that would decorate her dungeon.

The last federal position he held was Inmate--he served more than eight years for his inventive approach to acquiring money.

You spend three or more hours per day reading about, acquiring or preparing certain kinds of food you believe to be “pure.”

“Juan Carlos has always been slightly obsessed by acquiring money,” says one member of Madrid society.

Acquiring the first license and making the first sale Tuesday morning is crucial on several levels, he says.

He is already in easy circumstances, and is in a fair way of soon acquiring a brilliant fortune.

All of it was worthless—except to a man of vision—so, treading lightly, Scattergood went about acquiring what he needed.

He was rapidly acquiring distinction in science, and his loss was much regretted.

One of the first immediate tasks to be done was the training of soldiers in Virginia and the acquiring of cannon and fire-arms.

Only some persons are naturally disposed to be polite, as others are in acquiring great talents and solid virtue.

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On this page you'll find 219 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to acquiring, such as: clearing, gaining, getting, inheriting, making, and netting.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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