"acquire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- 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.
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