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
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
Her knowledge of life and books, like that of her husband, is self-acquired, but I have met few people in any walk of life 551with the same wide and thorough range of thought.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
No man can possess property unless it is self-acquired.
From The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)
In the two ways just explained, through partition and through the idea of self-acquired property, individual interests in property came to be recognized throughout the law.
From An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law by Pound, Roscoe
