"acquire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

acquire verbo

acquire + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 229
acquire land • acquire knowledge • acquire skills • acquire weapons • acquire information • acquire citizenship • acquire control • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 51
(1) land, acre, estate, manor
Kolokacji: 4
(8) name, title, nickname
Kolokacji: 3
(11) technology, Frontier
Kolokacji: 2
(16) part, role, portfolio
Kolokacji: 3
(20) language, loan
Kolokacji: 2
(22) taste, insight
Kolokacji: 2
(24) territory, jurisdiction
Kolokacji: 2
(28) customer, sponsorship
Kolokacji: 2
(33) space, degree, depth, acreage
Kolokacji: 4
1. acquire importance = nabierz znaczenia acquire importance
2. acquire urgency = nabądź pilną potrzebę acquire urgency
  • This historical debate has acquired new urgency now that "post-Fascists" (as yesterday's neo-Fascists call themselves today) are an important part of Italy's center-right government led by Silvio Berlusconi.
  • Their relationship, teasingly undefined, acquires sudden urgency when Malú's beloved grandmother dies, and her divorced mother decides to marry a foreigner and leave Havana.
  • Given the regional tension since the attack on the United States, this chore has acquired new urgency.
  • While the community's trade negotiations with the East Europeans have acquired urgency in light of the recent upheavals there, they began before the most dramatic political changes.
  • And for the Administration, an effort to reduce subsidies has acquired new urgency in recent weeks.
  • Schools Chancellor Richard Green's campaign to win authority from Albany to reassign ineffective principals has acquired new urgency.
  • There is no complete catalogue either of Anderson's graphic work nor of his writing, and the compilation of such a volume acquires special urgency after Katrina.
  • While family breakdown has vexed policy makers for three decades, the issue has acquired new urgency in an age of time-limited welfare.
  • But the issue has acquired only greater urgency since then.
  • Issues of security have acquired fresh urgency in the light of the most recent terrorist attacks.
3. acquire prominence = nabądź wysoką pozycję acquire prominence
(35) Corporation, newspaper
Kolokacji: 2
(36) value, habit
Kolokacji: 2
(38) talent, competitor, rival
Kolokacji: 3
(39) nationality, English, clout
Kolokacji: 3
(41) prestige, rating
Kolokacji: 2
(42) supply, effort, dozens
Kolokacji: 3
(43) confidence, slave, friend
Kolokacji: 3
(45) uranium, thousands, co.
Kolokacji: 3
(46) momentum, stature
Kolokacji: 2
(47) food, nutrient
Kolokacji: 2
(49) institution, hospital
Kolokacji: 2
(50) option, follower
Kolokacji: 2
(51) Johnson, Hughes
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + acquire
Kolokacji: 22
begin acquiring • agree to acquire • try to acquire • begin to acquire • seek to acquire • ...
acquire + preposición
Kolokacji: 38
acquired through • acquired during • acquired by • acquire from • acquire over • ...
acquire + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 48
newly acquired • eventually acquire • later acquired • gradually acquire • quickly acquire • ...

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