ACQUIRE, ACQUIREMENT, ACQUISITION, ACQUISITIVE
ADJECTIVES
► ACQUISITE acquired; gained, gotten, obtained for oneself → 1532 obs.
► ACQUISITED acquired → 1613 obs.
► ACQUISITITIOUS of the nature of an acquisition; gained by exertion; acquired, as opposed to ‘native’ or ‘innate’ → 1653
► ACQUISITIVE that has been acquired → 1637 obs.
► ACQUISTED acquired → 1613 obs.
► ADEPTED acquired, gained → 1595 obs.
► GAIR-GATHERED ill-acquired → 1870 Sc.
► HAVING acquisitive; desirous of having or possessing; greedy, covetous, grasping → 1591 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► YCONQUEST acquired → 1513 obs.
► YFET acquired; brought, carried, fetched → 893 obs.
NOUNS
► ACQUEST 1. the act of acquiring → 1613 obs.
2. an acquisition, a thing acquired → 1622
► ACQUIRE acquirement or gain → 1592 obs.
► ACQUIRY acquirement, acquisition; the process of acquiring → 1549 obs.
► ACQUIST 1. the act of acquiring → 1613
2. an acquisition, a thing acquired → 1635 obs.
► BEGET 1. acquisition; the act of acquiring; gaining; gain, profit, advantage → 1175 obs.
2. acquisition, gain; the thing acquired; proceeds; spoils of war → 1200 obs.
► CAPTION a lucky acquisition; the acquisition of anything valuable or profitable → 1825 Sc.
► COP an acquisition → 1950 US sl.
► COVETISE excessive desire for the acquisition and possession of wealth, etc., esp. of possessing what belongs to another → 1297
► COVETIVENESS acquisitiveness → 1815 obs.
► EFFECT acquisition, gain something which is acquired or attained by an action → 1602 obs.
► LEARNING an acquirement → 1602 obs.
NOUNS, PERSON
► ACCUMULATOR an acquisitive person; a person who accumulates things, esp. wealth or possessions → 1611
► ACQUISITOR a person who acquires → 1888 (Bk.)
► ACQUISTER a person who acquires → 1613 obs.
► GIMME an acquisitive, greedy woman → 1930 Aust. sl.
► SCRAPER an acquisitive, greedy person → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
VERBS
► ACCROACH to acquire, to draw to oneself; to catch, to attract → 1325
► ACQUIST to acquire, to gain for oneself → 1598 obs.
► ADDLE to acquire or gain as one’s own; to earn → 1200 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► BEGET to acquire, to get, usually by effort → 1000 obs.
► CLOCK to acquire; to earn. to ‘rack up’ → 1990 US sl., esp. African-American usage
► COFF to acquire, to get → 1559 Sc. obs.
► COP to acquire; to obtain, to purchase → M19 sl.
► COUGH to acquire, to purchase, to get → 1550 obs.
► ETTLE to acquire by labour, to earn → 1851 Eng. dial.
► FALL INTO to acquire by chance or without effort → 1946 US sl.
► ORGANIZE to steal, to loot, to acquire illicitly or by underhand methods → 1939 sl., orig. military usage
► SCARF UP to acquire → 1973 US sl.
► SCART to be excessively acquisitive in small things; to accumulate in a penurious, niggardly way → 1887 Sc.
► SNAFFLE to acquire something for your own → 1902 UK sl.
► SORTISE vb. to acquire, to obtain → 1474 obs.
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