acquirer

1. 1.

   a person who acquires something (usually permanently)

   Broaderperson

   Narrowerrecipientappropriatorprocurer
2. 2.

   a corporation gaining financial control over another corporation or financial institution through a payment in cash or an exchange of stock

   Broaderdepository financial institution
3. 3.

   the financial institution that dispenses cash in automated teller machines and collects a fee from the bank that issued the credit card

   Broaderfinancial institution
4. 4.

   a credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing fee

   Synonymsmerchant bank

   Broaderdepository financial institution

Other forms of acquirer

plural

acquirers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about acquirer

What does acquirer mean?

acquirer means "a person who acquires something (usually permanently)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in acquirer?

acquirer has 4 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /əˈkwaɪɚɚ/.

What is another word for acquirer?

Close synonyms include merchant bank. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acquirer a common word?

acquirer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.