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say it: uh-KWAHY-ring
acquiring is a noun meaning "the act of acquiring something". It carries one recorded sense.
the act of acquiring something
“I envied his talent for acquiring”
“he's much more interested in the getting than in the giving”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for acquiring come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.