acquisition

Other forms of acquisition

plural

acquisitions·

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 acquisition

What does acquisition mean?

acquisition means "the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in acquisition?

acquisition has 4 syllables: acq-ui-sit-ion. The stress falls on "sit". In IPA it is /ˌækwəˈzɪʃən/.

What is another word for acquisition?

Close synonyms include learning, skill, accomplishment, acquirement, attainment. 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 acquisition a common word?

acquisition is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with acquisition?

21 words rhyme with acquisition. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.