acquisitions
Sayak-wi-ZISH-uhnz/ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ənz/
- 1Plural of acquisition.
The library displayed its latest acquisitions near the main entrance.
A string of corporate acquisitions reshaped the industry within a decade.
Note
A regular -s plural whose meaning depends on which kind of acquisition is counted. Most often it names things gained, such as a library's new books or the firms a company has bought, because a thing acquired is easy to count. It can also count separate acts of acquiring (three acquisitions in one year). In computing, it can name repeated rounds of converting physical signals into digital values.
acquisitions is a form of acquisition
acquisition, noun: The act or process of gaining or coming to possess something. Full entry
- Forms
- acquisitionacquisitions plural
- Spelling
- acquisition → acquisitions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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