- the act of acquiring or gaining possession: the acquisition of real estate.
- something acquired; addition: public excitement about the museum's recent acquisitions.
- the purchase of one business enterprise by another: the acquisition of a rival corporation;mergers and acquisitions.
- the act or process of achieving mastery of a language or a linguistic rule or element: child language acquisition; second language acquisition.
- the act of acquiring or gaining possession
- something acquired
- a person or thing of special merit added to a group
- the process of locating a spacecraft, satellite, etc, esp by radar, in order to gather tracking and telemetric information
