"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
  • At a news conference yesterday, local officials said both weapons appeared to have been acquired legally.
  • Cell phone data can be legally acquired by the use of a subpoena.
  • The fact is that most crimes are not committed using legally acquired weapons.
  • Not all of them, he said, were acquired legally.
  • The gun had been acquired legally, and calls were later made to ban its sale in Canada.
  • A third was shown to have been legally acquired, and was sold in 1978.
  • Nevertheless, she said, the auction house was confident that they had been legally acquired.
  • You're deciding that the current model of legally acquiring something is not to your taste and as a result using an illegal method.
  • Acquisition - This type of relationship occurs when one company legally acquires the other.
  • For everything beyond that, people would have to demonstrate that the money was legally acquired.
(7) officially, formally
Kolokacji: 2
(8) directly, immediately
Kolokacji: 2
(9) quietly, forward, steadily
Kolokacji: 3

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