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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Example Sentences

It aims to further integrate artificial intelligence into its planning, following a strategy from aspiring acquirer UniCredit to revamp the bank.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 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

“The fact that SpaceX…is the acquirer here is symbolic of where the next multi‑trillion‑dollar technology opportunity lies,” he says.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 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)