acquire
verb (used with object)
to come into possession or ownership of; get as one's own.
Example Sentences
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The sign on the road leading to the city of Shilong in the Khasi hills of northeast India had a puzzling message: “Equitable distribution of self-acquired property rights.”
From Time ● Nov. 4, 2013
But for a working basis he had self-acquired knowledge of the Place hitters.
From The Young Pitcher by Zane Grey
But there is really no other truth but that self-acquired knowledge which we attain by the labor of our own spirits.
From Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach
The other is the idea of what in the Hindu law is called self-acquired property.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Roscoe Pound
But probably this is to be accounted for by the circumstance of his education being entirely practical, and mainly self-acquired.
From The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain by Samuel Smiles
