| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obtaining or receiving |
| Synonyms: | accretion, achievement, acquirement, acquiring, addition, attainment, buy, gain, gaining, learning, obtainment, possession, prize, procuration, procurement, procuring, property, purchase, pursuit, recovery, redemption, retrieval, salvage, winning |
| Notes: | acquisition is a material possession while an acquirement is a personal skill or knowledge that one gains |
| Antonyms: | dearth, lack, loss, need, want |
| Concept: | Acquisition. |
| Category: | 1. Property in general |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
acquisition; gaining; obtainment; procuration, procurement; purchase, descent, inheritance; gift., recovery, retrieval, revendication, replevin; redemption, salvage, trover., find, trouvaille, foundling., gain, thrift; money-making, money grubbing; lucre, filthy lucre, pelf; loaves and fishes, the main chance; emolument (remuneration)., profit, earnings, winnings, innings, pickings, net profit; avails; income (receipt); proceeds, produce, product; outcome, output; return, fruit, crop, harvest; second crop, aftermath; benefit (good)., sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool; pot; wealth., [Fraudulent acquisition] subreption; obreption; stealing.
-verbs
acquire, get, gain, win, earn, obtain, procure, gather; collect (assemble); pick, pickup; glean., find; come upon, pitch upon, light upon; scrape up, scrape together; get in, reap and carry, net, bag, sack, bring home, secure; derive, draw, get in the harvest., profit; make profit, draw profit; turn to profit, turn to account; make capital out of, make money by; obtain a return, reap the fruits of; reap an advantage, gain an advantage; turn a penny, turn an honest penny; make the pot boil, bring grist to the mill; make money, coin money, raise money; raise funds, raise the wind; fill one's pocket (wealth) [more]., treasure up (store); realize, clear; produce; take., get back, recover, regain, retrieve, revendicate, replevy, redeem, come by one's own., come by, come in for; receive; inherit; step into a fortune, step into the shoes of; succeed to., get hold of, get between one's finger and thumb, get into one's hand, get at; take possession, come into possession, enter into possession., be profitable; pay, answer., accrue (be received).
-adjectives
acquiring, acquired; profitable, advantageous, gainful, remunerative, paying, lucrative.
-phrases
lucri causa.
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| Antonyms: | loss |
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| Main Entry: | achievement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something completed successfully; goal reached |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, act, actualization, attainment, completion, conquest, consummation, contrivance, creation, deed, effectuation, effort, enactment, encompassment, execution, exploit, feat, fulfillment, hit, masterpiece, performance, production, realization, stroke, success, tour de force, triumph, victory |
| Antonyms: | defeat, failure, forfeit, injury, miscue, misfortune, neglect, negligence |
| Main Entry: | assumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assuming possession, power |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, accepting, acquisition, adoption, appropriation, arrogation, assuming, embracing, grab, seizure, shouldering, takeover, taking, taking on, taking up, undertaking, usurpation |
| Main Entry: | attainment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement, accomplishment |
| Synonyms: | acquirement, acquisition, arrival, completion, feat, finish, fulfillment, gaining, getting, obtaining, procurement, reaching, realization, reaping, securing, succeeding, winning |
| Antonyms: | failure, forfeit, loss, miss, surrender |
| Main Entry: | buy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something purchased |
| Synonyms: | acquisition, bargain, closeout, deal, good deal, investment, purchase, steal, value |
| Main Entry: | capture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | catching, forceful holding |
| Synonyms: | abduction, acquirement, acquisition, apprehension, appropriating, appropriation, arrest, bag*, bust, catch, collar, commandeering, confiscation, drop*, ensnaring, fall, gaining, grab*, grasping, hit the jackpot, hook*, imprisonment, knock off, laying hold of, nab, nail, obtaining, occupation, pick up*, pinch*, pull*, run in, securing, seizing, seizure, snatching, sweep*, taking, taking captive, taking into custody, trapping, trip, winning |
| Antonyms: | freeing, letting go, liberalization, release |
| Main Entry: | collection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group, accumulation |
| Synonyms: | accumulating, acquiring, acquisition, agglomeration, amassing, amassment, anthology, assemblage, assembling, assembly, assortment, batch, bringing together, caboodle, clump, cluster, collation, combination, company, compilation, congeries, congregation, convocation, crowd, cumulation, digest, gathering, heap, hoard, kit, levy, lot, mass, medley, mess, miscellany, mobilization, muster, number, obtaining, omnibus, pile, quantity, securing, selection, set, stack, stock, stockpile, store |
| Main Entry: | conquest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defeat, victory |
| Synonyms: | acquisition, annexation, appropriation, big win, clean sweep, conquering, coup, defeating, discomfiture, grand slam, invasion, killing*, occupation, overthrow, rout, routing, score, splash*, subdual, subjection, subjugation, success, takeover, triumph, vanquishment, win |
| Antonyms: | failure, forfeit, loss, surrender, yielding |