verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
acquire/achieve/gain/develop competence
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First you have to acquire competence in methods of research.
acquire/assemble/amass a collection formal
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The two men amassed a remarkable collection of medieval manuscripts.
acquire/assume significance formal (= take on significance )
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As links with Europe continue to grow, language learning assumes even greater significance.
an acquired taste (= something that people do not like at first )
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This kind of tea is an acquired taste, but very refreshing.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
newly
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Infections newly acquired during this tail will therefore be under selection pressure.
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The median clearance time of newly acquired human papillomavirus was 6 months.
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One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce.
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She returned to the restaurant and put her newly acquired knowledge to work.
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The tour also visits several conservancy preserves, including newly acquired Watson Brake Mounds, one of the oldest mound complexes known.
recently
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Our chauffeur, Robin, had recently acquired new ` wheels'.
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My wife Kay recently acquired a disabled sticker for our car, and we found provision for disabled passengers greatly improved.
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Robinson tinkered with his lines, breaking up the Wayne Gretzky and recently acquired Kevin Stevens combination after three games.
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New fish may be a hybrid I recently acquired a Red Parrot fish.
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Recently acquired 70 new buses equipped with front-end bike racks that can accommodate two bikes.
■ NOUN
asset
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She would also be acquiring a capital asset .
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The waste-management company also entered into a pact to acquire other Wastemasters assets for about $ 15. 8 million.
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Indeed, Fleet was eager to liquidate the preferred shares, because they legally precluded it from integrating those newly acquired assets .
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Whether a company acquires an asset through loan or leasing, it is committed to making future cash payments.
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With the help of the Greyhound Bank it acquired Dan Air assets but grew quickly as its order book grew.
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Mr Pinault acquired an asset that subsequently produced lots of much-needed cash.
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Emap will acquire nominal net assets .
business
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Mr Wilbraham acquired five businesses within 15 months.
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It has been criticized by analysts for veering off that course and acquiring too many other businesses too quickly.
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Analysts are divided over whether Fore and the other expensively acquired businesses will ever make a decent return for shareholders.
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The directors in that case had decided that the company should acquire a brokerage business for a substantial sum.
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We have steadily acquired businesses since then.
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Warranties to be limited to events occurring after the Vendor acquired the Business .
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McKinsey rarely acquires other businesses , preferring to grow organically.
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Firstly, over the past few years, it has acquired various software businesses with related but incompatible products.
child
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From parents, children can acquire habits and tastes that are peculiar if not exclusive to a particular class.
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They were beginning to achieve astonishing economic success; and only their children would acquire a certain polish.
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It is hardly surprising that many children eventually acquire a similar attitude towards the relevance of mathematics.
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As children acquire the pidgin, they use it with playmates and other children in their peer group.
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Piaget suggested that behavior becomes intelligent when the child acquires the ability to solve new problems.
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Furthermore they are exceptionally ambitious in the language, skill and concepts they expect young children to acquire .
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Through learning, children acquire not only their parents' moral code but also a willingness to act in accordance with the rules.
company
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The third is for companies to acquire software for profiling, cross-analysing and clustering the census variables against their own customer records.
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Among the most debated changes is one that would affect minority shareholder rights when a company is acquired .
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Whether a company acquires an asset through loan or leasing, it is committed to making future cash payments.
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Larger companies in the industry acquired smaller companies, while the overall market demand for propane remained relatively stable.
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This can be done, for example, if the company acquires a source of income, such as opening a bank deposit account.
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Gensia and companies it has acquired lost $ 45. 8 million last year on sales of $ 58. 3 million.
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Labour today is rather like a car company whose models have acquired a reputation for unreliability.
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The new company also acquired five franchised units and raised more than $ 12 million for working capital.
corp
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The company got Notes last year by acquiring Lotus Development Corp .
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Milken served as an informal adviser to Ellison when he considered acquiring Apple Computer Corp . in 1994.
information
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Given the costs to the individual voter of acquiring this kind of information , it is not surprising that intermediaries have emerged.
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How do the cells acquire positional information ?
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My first task was trying to acquire some reliable information about the nomads.
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Virtually everyone who works for an enterprise from time to time will acquire information from the environment of potential value to its operations.
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If you can acquire this information through a personal interview or contact, by all means do so.
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Large multinational corporations produce and acquire vast volumes of information in the course of their business.
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Specifically, under rapidly changing market conditions, acquired information is time-critical and tends to have a shorter lifetime.
interest
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I mention Husserl because I think that it may have been via Husserl that Wittgenstein acquired his own interest in intentionality.
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Host Marriott Corp. said it will pay $ 112. 5 million to acquire controlling interest in five hotels.
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In exchange, Union Jack will acquire a 3.5 percent interest in the Claymore field from Texaco.
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He acquired a lasting scientific interest in mucus, possibly augmented by digestive problems of his own.
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No existing trading company may acquire an interest exceeding 10 percent in another security trading company.
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Roebuck acquiring a two-thirds interest in Watt's patent for his financial help.
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The beneficiaries will acquire an equitable interest and, therefore, an equitable lease. 2.
knowledge
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For example, how can such a vast quantity of knowledge be acquired ?
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Physical, logical-mathematical, and social knowledge are not acquired directly but are constructed by the individual.
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This issue is important because of the complex nature of such frauds, meaning that proof of actual knowledge is hard to acquire .
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Genetic epistemology is the science of how knowledge is acquired .
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The distinction between rationalism and empiricism relates to a distinction between knowledge acquired by reason and knowledge acquired by the senses.
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But for Aristotle and his followers, the belief held that the only knowledge we can acquire originates in sense-perceptions.
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The autonomous learner lacking particular knowledge knows how to acquire that knowledge.
land
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He had already acquired some ex-episcopal lands back in 1647-8, in settlement of earlier debts owing to him on the public faith.
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Deputy City Manager Bruce Herring said the city is negotiating to acquire land for those two sites.
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Quite apart from acquiring the land , he had been charged with getting hold of large quantities of uranium.
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It was to enable the government to acquire land sold during the depression to pay off debts.
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Joint-venture companies are specifically entitled to acquire land necessary for their own business.
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As he acquired further land and office in the north, the affinity inevitably widened.
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But all parties agree that Mr Mugabe must follow the laws of his own country in acquiring the land .
opportunity
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These shears are not generally available to the public, so take this opportunity to acquire a pair now.
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Industrial visits and other opportunities to acquire appropriate experience form part of the course.
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She or he would have to spend a year in general practice to have the opportunity to acquire similar skills.
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And the opportunities to acquire it are infinite, for power is not limited.
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Both should receive official sanction and both require in-service training opportunities to acquire the necessary skills.
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It seems I have been presented with an excellent opportunity to acquire merit by serving a holy man in charity.
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Employees should be given every opportunity to acquire a stake in the business for which they work.
person
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It is no doubt valuable to create an environment in which a person acquires effective behavior rapidly and continues to behave effectively.
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A person can acquire the virus from one method and pass it on through another.
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Or, of course, it might simply be a habit the person has acquired that has no particular significance.
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Essentially, it meant that each person should acquire the self-knowledge concerning when and how he or she learned best.
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Without help a person acquires very little moral or ethical behavior under either natural or social contingencies.
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That is, did the person acquiring the subject-matter think that he was obtaining hardware or software?
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Such voluntary transfers of possession are called bailment, and the person who so acquires possession is a bailee of the goods.
power
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On nationalisation, the divisions had acquired around 300 power stations, initially grouping them for management at an intermediate level.
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But no sooner had a man acquired a little power than the tyrant in him emerged.
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In April local councils acquired an important new power .
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I had the feeling that she had suddenly acquired the powers of a clairvoyant.
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Nobody inside the movement was permitted to acquire enough power or a high enough profile to challenge de Gaulle successfully.
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But his athletic prowess dovetailed with his particular experiences, and his body, for him, acquired almost magical power .
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It may be that the old pictographic signs acquired a special magic power associated with the remote past.
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In primitive thought and custom, one acquires the powers or characteristics of what one eats.
property
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In 1706 Lord Chesterfield acquired the property and demolished the original house.
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He had also acquired rights to a property with the intriguing title Shadow on the Sun.
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Rights were acquired in literary properties that would never be filmed.
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Corporations involved in the escalating race to acquire media properties seek not only expanded profitability but also increasing influence.
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Gradually the pairing of this warning to time out leads to the warning itself acquiring some punishing properties .
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But some symbols acquire their additional semantic properties from some characteristic they have as actions or things.
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Under the first, a sale agreement, the Prudential agreed to acquire a freehold property .
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The National Trust acquired this unusual property in 1951, but few records were kept of the garden's early management.
reputation
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Mr Customer Smith did however acquire a dubious reputation for dealing in prize goods.
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Before long, the firm acquired a reputation as a top provider of programming and debugging services.
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How was it, then, that Masailand acquired its reputation for corrupting those sent to rule over it?
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The elaborately staged conferences have acquired a reputation for issuing high-sounding communiques urging remedial economic or monetary action.
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Transcendental Meditation has never acquired the reputation of a sinister cult, but doubts are sometimes voiced about it.
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People will acquire reputations on how well-trained their computers are and how well-groomed their computational ecology is.
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We have acquired a reputation as the dumping ground with lightning speed.
skill
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This may include identifying additional skills you need to acquire .
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This gives new workers time to develop their skills and acquire some clients.
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We tend to expect pupils to find words in dictionaries, because we assume it is a skill which is simply acquired .
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Foundation skills are acquired in the first five years of life.
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They also found that on their return many women were unable to utilize the skills that they had acquired before having children.
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Knowing when not to apply the rules is clearly an important skill to acquire .
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It is only with thought, practice and feedback that the necessary skills can be acquired .
stake
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It acquired its stake in the early 1980s, hoping eventually to acquire the tobacco group.
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Disney reportedly has been in talks to acquire a one-third stake in Starwave Corp. for as much as $ 100 million.
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Millions of voters have acquired a stake in the wider ownership of shares and homes and a voice in union affairs.
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Hongkong Land acquired a 14.9% stake in Trafalgar House and then attempted, but failed, to push its holding to 29.9%.
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Mediobanca is being forced to acquire the 10 percent stake after secretly buying that much in October.
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Employees should be given every opportunity to acquire a stake in the business for which they work.
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Buyers acquire a 50 percent stake in exchange for investing a certain amount of money in the company.
status
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Bezannes From no specific mention in the échelle this growth acquired premier cru status in 1985.
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Affirmation depends on negation: white is valued at the expense of black; youth acquires status through the devaluation of ageing.
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These days the practice of story-telling is so rare that it has acquired the status of an art form.
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You first have to acquire non-resident status .
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But for most retirees, acquiring unconditional non-resident status can take up to three years.
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During the period of the Tudor monarchs in the sixteenth century, Parliament acquired enhanced status .
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Some women have acquired status as heroines.
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But Kampuchea failed to acquire this status .
student
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This proved a vain hope, as the young student soon acquired a following of like-minded people.
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The student acquires knowledge, understanding and a range of competencies in a particular domain.
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This will safeguard against the student acquiring bad habits in these features of pronunciation.
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During the first two years, students acquire a knowledge of both general and vocationally related registers of the languages.
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It is misleading if it means simply that students learn how to acquire conventional encyclopaedia-like knowledge for themselves.
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A general module which enables the student to acquire basic skills in group music making, using instruments and/or voices.
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The written examinations would provide the opportunity for assessing whether the student had acquired a sufficiently analytical approach to the subject.
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One polytechnic has resolved that all its humanities degree students shall acquire some appreciation of computers and information technology.
taste
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Having acquired the taste , a service career became increasingly attractive to them.
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Protective poison, an acquired taste .
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It was too fizzy and too gassy to drink and I acquired a taste for real ale.
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But the Moodies, propelled by pseudo-symphonic arrangements and mysticism, always were and always will be an acquired taste .
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They feared that their troops might acquire a taste for such butchery and become no better than those they fought against.
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They are like sushi, maybe an acquired taste .
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However, acquiring a taste for less salt may take time in order to become used to a low-salt taste.
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I rarely drink in the week, and I've never acquired a taste for wine.
title
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The pledgee was immunized against the freight claim because of his failure to acquire full title to the goods.
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He went on to acquire titles and estates, becoming conte di Buttigliera and seigneur of Saint-Thomas-de-Coeur.
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If A then sells and delivers them to an innocent purchaser, the latter will acquire good title .
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Movies acquire new titles in one of two ways.
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However, it is always possible that the person who sold him the goods, later acquires the title to them.
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These attitudes have acquired their own shorthand titles .
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It didn't last, but at least she acquired a title .
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Thus some one taking only a pledge can not acquire good title by virtue of this provision.
■ VERB
agree
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Learning Co. agreed to be acquired for $ 606 million in cash and stock.
begin
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Once they began , they acquired momentum of their own, and the size of the purge made it credible.
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And somehow-not solely by osmosis, either-we began acquiring that degree of skill and energy and initiative of quick intelligence.
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Intel said it would begin to acquire all outstanding shares of Xircom within the next ten days.
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In fact, most began to acquire not only managerial knowledge and skills, but also managerial interests and a managerial temperament.
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In 1987 they began to acquire estate agencies.
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Balancing these tensions required finely honed knowledge and skill that the new managers had only begun to acquire .
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It is at this point that the nation state begins to acquire a psychological as well as a purely administrative significance.
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On 8 June, Caparo began to acquire Fidelity's shares.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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AC Transit recently acquired 70 new buses equipped with wheelchair lifts.
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In 1998 the business was acquired by a Dutch company.
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It took him a long time to acquire the skills he needed to become a professional artist.
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Many inner cities have acquired reputations for violent crime.
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NTN acquired the rights to broadcast game data from football games in 1987.
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Research helps us acquire new insight on the causes of diseases.
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Robinson spent $20 million to acquire the symphony hall.
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The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has recently acquired several paintings by Salvador Dali.
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The statue was acquired at great expense by the City Corporation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He has acquired an autonomy and influence staggering even by the standards of a country where anomalies are institutionalised.
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Official prices were low, but you had to pay with time or bribes to actually acquire anything.
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Once slated for thousands of homes, the Daley Ranch was acquired by the city for $ 21 million in January.
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Others acquired a harder outer membrane to later become skin-like materials.
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They acquired a Tucson resort in 1991 and a Hyatt hotel in Houston in 1992.
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They acquired joint and exclusive occupation of the flat in consideration of periodical payments and they therefore acquired a tenancy jointly.
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What concerns them is the risk that engineered plants might acquire weedy traits and escape from cultivation.