"acquire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The line travelled over flat land which had been cheaply acquired.
- Greed played a part in such expropriations: by governments for the profits from land sales or other income, by landlords, settlers or speculators for estates easily and cheaply acquired.
- Thereupon, the city decided to develop the plot of land that had been cheaply acquired as grassland; it then constructed the "Arthur Schnitzler-Hof", a Plattenbau from the 1960s.
- But if it can be acquired cheaply and pirated, why would anybody pay you for the same service?
- It was acquired cheaply by the Adventist church in 1949.
- Furs were in demand in Europe, and they could be acquired cheaply from Indians in exchange for manufactured goods the Indians could not make themselves.
- However, with a reenergized downtown, businesses started to look for buildings that could be acquired cheaply.
- Such problem institutions, which can often be acquired cheaply, are apparently what Mr. Reed sees as "freebies."
- Quisling next sold a large number of antiques and works of art that he had acquired cheaply in post-revolutionary Russia.
- I can picture the huge sums expended to create these weapons, only to be acquired cheaply by our enemies through espionage.
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