acquire
Example Sentences
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Targa Resources agreed to acquire Stakeholder Midstream, which provides natural gas gathering and processing services in the Permian Basin, for $1.25 billion in cash.
In free agency, the team splashed out to acquire two new defensive tackles.
Yet he acquired a reputation as a dandy, a clever humorist and an intellectual showman, distinctly apolitical and seemingly a man of no convictions.
From Los Angeles Times
The U.S. currently has only two icebreakers in operation, both built last century, and in October signed a $6.1 billion deal with Finland to acquire 11 new ones.
Since July, the Coast Guard has acquired several hundred aerial drones and undersea and surface vessels.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
