"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
(7) officially, formally
Kolokacji: 2
(8) directly, immediately
Kolokacji: 2
(9) quietly, forward, steadily
Kolokacji: 3
1. quietly acquire = cicho nabądź quietly acquire
  • So you've been rather quietly acquiring all private investments in space that you can get your hands on, as fast as you can finance it.
  • According to Le Soleil, Apple quietly acquired the company in recent weeks, and most of its employees have already moved into offices at Apple's Cupertino headquarters.
  • One of the country's largest private real estate investment groups quietly acquired the landmark General Motors Building in Manhattan last month, people at G.M. said yesterday.
  • Since then, she'd gained a lot of influence in China and quietly acquired Indochina from France and the oil-rich East Indies from Holland.
  • As for drink, the cabinet in the library holding a small stock of wines and spirits also quietly acquired a lock.
  • Banrock Station shiraz (also known as syrah), a southeastern Australian jewel, has quietly and unsurprisingly acquired a cultish status.
  • Over the years the museum has been quietly acquiring works by Ellsworth Kelly.
  • Indeed, even as it was closing or selling some of its big-city papers, it was quietly acquiring replacements in smaller markets such as Midland, Mich., and Laredo, Tex.
  • The family attempted to gain a controlling interest by quietly acquiring large amounts of stock in the corporation.
  • In quietly acquiring and subverting these institutions, much as he did with the Australia Council he has held miniature exhibitions in their sanctified spaces.
2. acquire forward = nabądź do przodu acquire forward
3. steadily acquire = stale nabądź steadily acquire

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