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acquisitive

adjective as in eager to obtain knowledge or things

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BDG-YahooBDG has been extremely acquisitive for years, and its CEO Bryan Goldberg has been pretty widely available to discuss the media M&A landscape.

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Pattisall likened Omnicom’s approach to Stagwell’s, in that both are building out their technical ability to deliver on these newer services, while IPG and Publicis have been more acquisitive in buying Acxiom and Epsilon, respectively.

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Accenture Interactive has been on an acquisitive spree of sorts over the last 10 years, growing its roster of independent agencies, as well as digital and marketing services firms.

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Comcast, acquisitive octopus that it is, has a new, $45 billion bid for Time Warner Cable currently on the table.

“I think at that level the acquisitive hunter-gatherer gene influences them more than riches,” Bass said.

Along with his relatives and cronies, Karzai is widely suspected of corruption of both the acquisitive and political variety.

Susan Sontag once described the camera as “the ideal arm of consciousness in an acquisitive mood.”

His acquisitive mind was never idle, and in 1732 he began the publication of the celebrated "Poor Richard's Almanac."

Now here was an oddity in a world of self-centred, acquisitive tradespeople: a dealer who decried her own wares.

The angler constructs nothing: he belongs to the acquisitive branch.

He traces the Sophist by descending subdivision from the acquisitive genus of art.

Again, we may find the Sophist by descending through a different string of subordinate classes from the genus — Acquisitive Art.

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On this page you'll find 29 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to acquisitive, such as: rapacious, avaricious, avid, covetous, demanding, and desirous.

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

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