Acquisition
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"An acquired taste is an appreciation for food or drink unlikely to be enjoyed by a person who has not had substantial exposure to it. It is the opposite of innate taste, which is the appreciation for things that are enjoyable by most persons without prior exposure to them."--Sholem Stein |
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Acquisition may refer to:
- Takeover, the purchase of one company by another
- Mergers and acquisitions, transactions in which the ownership of companies or their operating units are transferred or consolidated with other entities
- Procurement, finding, agreeing terms and acquiring goods, services or works from an external source
- Library acquisitions, department of a library responsible for the selection and purchase of materials
- Military acquisition, the process of acquiring products for national defense
- Acquiring bank, a bank or financial institution that processes credit or debit card payments on behalf of a merchant
- Acquisition (contract law), process by which the Federal Government of the U.S. acquires goods, services, and interests in real property
- Acquisition (forensic process), the creation of a disk image for use in digital forensics
- Acquisition (linguistic), process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language
- Acquisition (psychology), learning
- Acquisition stage, the time during which a conditional response first appears and when it increases in frequency
- Acquisition (Star Trek: Enterprise)
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See also
- Acquire (company)
- Acquired characteristic
- Acquired lands
- Acquired taste
- Buy (disambiguation)
- Gain
- Get (disambiguation)
- Taken (disambiguation)
- Taker (disambiguation)
- The Take (disambiguation)
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