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(v)
To obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
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(transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
(transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
(transitive) To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
(ergative) To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof.
To take (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) by choice into a relationship.
(n)
The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.
The act or process of acquiring.
(transitive) To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way.
(transitive) To acquire or obtain.
(intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
(transitive) To gain (an object or desired result).
(transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
(adj)
(of a goal or status) Having been reached, attained or accomplished.
An achievement; the process of achieving something.
(transitive) To be given, sent, or paid something.
(uncountable) The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.
(ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
(transitive) To persistently endeavor to obtain an object, or bring about an event.
Gain; profit.
Able to be obtained.
To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.
(transitive) To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.
(copulative, rather formal, followed by an adjective or a noun) begin to be; turn into (often with permanent states).
(ambitransitive) To try to find; to look for; to search for.
To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
(transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
(transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
(transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
(transitive) To create.
(transitive) To regain or get back something.
To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.
(uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
To defeat in combat; to subjugate.
(ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.
(transitive) To possess, own.
(transitive) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
(transitive) To make known; to show (by speech, writing etc.).
(transitive) To have (something) as, or as if as, an owner; to have, to own.
(physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
(intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
(intransitive) To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.
An act or process of making a purchase.
To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
(transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
The act of making a purchase.
(transitive) To teach by repeated instruction.
(transitive) To gather together; amass.
(transitive, ditransitive) To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.
(transitive) To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
(transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.
(transitive) To grasp or grip.
(uncountable) An act in which something is learned.
To collect normally separate things.
(intransitive) To be a master.
The acquisition of title to, or property in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent.
(transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
(intransitive) To gradually grow or increase in quantity or number.
(intransitive) To voluntarily join a cause or organization, especially military service.
The action of the verb to study.
(countable) The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment; attainment.
(transitive) To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
(transitive) To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.
To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
To understand.
(law) The accumulated legislation, legal acts, and court decisions which constitute the total body of European Union law.
Misspelling of take over. [To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.]
(transitive) To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.
(transitive) To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure.
(transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
(countable) A closed structure with walls and a roof.
(UK dialectal or obsolete) A grub or maggot.
(transitive) To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense.
(often figurative) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact
To buy, obtain by payment of a price in money or its equivalent.
The act of procuring, or amount procured.
(transitive) to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.
The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
(informal, transitive) To grab or snatch something.
(transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
(figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.
Misspelling of acquire. [(transitive) To get.]
(transitive) To acquire again.
(US, Canada, Oxford British English) Alternative spelling of utilise. [To make use of; to use.]
(transitive) Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.
(transitive, ditransitive, intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.