adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Are we at risk from acquisitive predators, and who are they?
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But standing there with Billie, surrounded by implements that promised home improvement, he yielded to an acquisitive urge.
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Cut off from the mass of the people by race and language, the rulers also became increasingly acquisitive in terms of land.
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For government was occasioned by the needs of capitalism and the acquisitive mentality which capitalism produced.
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He had never previously thought of himself as acquisitive or even as particularly materialistic.
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Now, he said, most acquisitive companies would still prefer to do friendly transactions.
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Old, or unearned, money tends to be neither acquisitive nor outward-going, whereas new money tends to be both.