acquirer

American  

[uh-kwahy-er-er] / əˈkwaɪ ər ər /

noun

plural

acquirers

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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Example Sentences

“It would also mitigate execution risk, eliminate incremental standalone costs and allow an acquirer to optimize the business under its own management and operating structure.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 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

GameStop’s substantial net operating losses, which allow it to offset future taxable income, could also make it an ideal acquirer for many targets, Burry wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

But his chief celebrity was as an acquirer of those of others, provided always that they were old enough or rare enough.

From The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by Roberts, W. (William)