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acquisitive

[ uh-kwiz-i-tiv ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

tending or seeking to acquire and own, often greedily; eager to get wealth, possessions, etc.:
our acquisitive impulses; acquisitive societies.
Synonyms: avaricious, grasping, covetous

acquisitive

/ əˈkwɪzɪtɪv /

inclined or eager to acquire things, esp material possessions
we currently live in an acquisitive society

1630–40; < Medieval Latin, Late Latin acquīsītīvus; acquisition, -ive

Comcast, acquisitive octopus that it is, has a new, $45 billion bid for Time Warner Cable currently on the table.

“I think at that level the acquisitive hunter-gatherer gene influences them more than riches,” Bass said.

Along with his relatives and cronies, Karzai is widely suspected of corruption of both the acquisitive and political variety.

Susan Sontag once described the camera as “the ideal arm of consciousness in an acquisitive mood.”

His acquisitive mind was never idle, and in 1732 he began the publication of the celebrated "Poor Richard's Almanac."

Now here was an oddity in a world of self-centred, acquisitive tradespeople: a dealer who decried her own wares.

The angler constructs nothing: he belongs to the acquisitive branch.

He traces the Sophist by descending subdivision from the acquisitive genus of art.

Again, we may find the Sophist by descending through a different string of subordinate classes from the genus — Acquisitive Art.

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