transcription, транскрипция: [ əkweɪntəns ]
( acquaintances)
1.
An acquaintance is someone who you have met and know slightly, but not well.
The proprietor was an old acquaintance of his...
N-COUNT : oft with poss
2.
If you have an acquaintance with someone, you have met them and you know them.
...a writer who becomes involved in a real murder mystery through his acquaintance with a police officer...
N-VAR : oft poss N , N with n , on N
3.
Your acquaintance with a subject is your knowledge or experience of it. ( FORMAL )
They had little or no acquaintance with philosophy or history...
N-UNCOUNT : usu with supp , oft N with n
4.
When you make someone’s acquaintance , you meet them for the first time and get to know them a little. ( FORMAL )
I first made his acquaintance in the early 1960s...
PHRASE : V inflects