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
He was extremely sensitive, petulant, and supercilious; fierce and even coarse in his attacks on opponents; boastful of his self-acquired wealth and of his intimacy with the nobility.
From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
From that time on his education was entirely self-acquired.
From The Engineering Contributions of Wendel Bollman by Robert M. Vogel
Their education was largely self-acquired, and their work in literature was always done in unbroken companionship.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
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
