acquired drive

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noun

psychol a drive, like the desire for money, that has not been inherited but is learned, presumably because it leads to the satisfaction of innate drives

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Words nearby acquired drive

acquiescent, acquire, acquired behaviour, acquired character, acquired characteristic, acquired drive, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, acquired immunity, acquired taste, acquiree, acquirement

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How to use acquired drive in a sentence

He used to drive her to school once he came home from the Marines.
The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile|Robert Ward|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The hope was that greater transparency about performance would drive results.
The ‘No Child’ Rewrite Threatens Your Kids’ Future|Jonah Edelman|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
You would only see it for a second, but it would drive you forward.
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The traveling show arrived in Shreveport at 7:30 in the morning after an all-night drive.
How Martin Luther King Jr. Influenced Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change Is Gonna Come’|Peter Guralnick|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST

We prefer to wave away the warning signs; like The Interview, Mulholland Drive was comfortably downplayed as over-the-top satire.
Pyongyang Shuffle: Hollywood In Dead Panic Over Sony Hack|James Poulos|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Then with your victorious legions you can march south and help drive the Yankee invaders from the land.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
Wordsworth has illustrated how an unwise and importunate demand for a reason from a child may drive him into invention.
Children's Ways|James Sully
Give not up thy heart to sadness, but drive it from thee: and remember the latter end.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
What he has done in any one species or distinct kind of writing would have been sufficient to have acquired him a great name.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell
If they will come to our villages and drive us out a hundred at a time, what would they do to one man alone?
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson