Acquisition

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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 (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)

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Acquisition
  • All pages with titles containing Acquisition
  • Acquire, board game
  • Acquire (company)
  • Acquired characteristic
  • Acquired lands
  • Acquired taste
  • Buy (disambiguation)
  • Get (disambiguation)
  • Taken (disambiguation)
  • Taker (disambiguation)
  • The Take (disambiguation)
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