acquirement

Etymology

From acquire + -ment.

noun

  1. (now rare, chiefly in the plural) Something that has been acquired; an attainment or accomplishment.
    […] his acquirements by industrie were […] enriched and enlarged by many excellent endowments of nature. 1630, John Hayward, The Life, and Riagne of King Edward the Sixt, London: John Partridge, page 4
  2. The act or fact of acquiring something; acquisition.
    One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought […]. 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    At best, a considerable time elapses between authorization and land acquirement, during which land values may vary impredictably. 1952, Annual report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army

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