acquirer

American  

[uh-kwahy-er-er] / əˈkwaɪ ər ər /

noun

• acquirers
  plural

1. someone who acquires.

2. a company that buys another company as part of a corporate merger or to sell for a profit.

3. a bank or other financial institution that processes credit and debit card transactions for the company that issued the card.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• acquirers
  plural

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acquirer acquirers

“AstraZeneca would effectively be a U.K.-based acquirer of one of America’s large pharmas, at a time when U.S. policymakers are focused on domestic manufacturing and strategic industries,” Jefferies says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Once a perennial takeover candidate, it built a dominant cystic-fibrosis franchise and became an acquirer in its own right, spreading its bets from gene editing to pain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

It’s “a higher quality asset materially under-earning with self-help and/or acquisition by a strategic acquirer as potential catalysts,” write Wolfe analysts.

From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 2026

Or there’s Canada’s Constellation Software, a serial acquirer of niche software companies that made investors 300 times their money at its peak.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

The fifth is Magnanimity, which is the moderator and acquirer of great honours and fame.

From The Banquet (Il Convito) by Elizabeth Price Sayer

But he stressed that a variety of catalysts could unlock value, even for companies that weren’t clear targets for acquirers.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

Investors in acquirers tend to dislike deals that involve issuing new stock, as increasing the shares outstanding reduces the percentage of the company owned by current shareholders.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026

Other scale plays have fared little better, leaving acquirers with stagnant portfolios instead of durable growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026

If it infringed free speech for the SEC rule to require potential corporate acquirers to disclose their 5% stake in a stock, then most financial disclosure requirements would fail muster, the judge said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026

Although the library included a proportion of desirable articles, many of the books were esteemed so worthless that the acquirers removed the ex libris, and left the rest behind them!

From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by William Carew Hazlitt