"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 • ...
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 • ...
(2) eventually, finally
Kolokacji: 2
(3) gradually, suddenly
Kolokacji: 2
  • The work was neither better nor worse than before, but it had suddenly acquired identification and special interest.
  • "The fact that Zanwood suddenly acquired enough money to go into business on his own."
  • Nonsense does not suddenly acquire sense and meaning with the addition of the two words, "God can" before it.
  • They also create a sense of expanded eye power, as if one has suddenly acquired X-ray vision.
  • A round, expressionless face looked through and suddenly acquired an expression.
  • What bothered him had nothing to do with some suddenly acquired phobia.
  • "But what extraordinary empire have you so suddenly acquired over his Majesty's mind?"
  • And what an ally for me to suddenly acquire!
  • I asked quietly, my stomach having suddenly acquired a large ice cube.
  • "How do I deal with the male relatives I've suddenly acquired?"
(7) officially, formally
Kolokacji: 2
(8) directly, immediately
Kolokacji: 2
(9) quietly, forward, steadily
Kolokacji: 3

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