Acquisition

Acquisition may refer to:Takeover, the purchase of one company by another Mergers and acquisitions, transactions in which the ownership of companies or their operating units are transferred or consolidated with other entities Procurement, finding, agreeing terms and acquiring goods, services or works from an external source Library acquisitions, department of a library responsible for the selection and purchase of materials Military acquisition, the process of acquiring products for national defense Acquiring bank, a bank or financial institution that processes credit or debit card payments on behalf of a merchant Acquisition, the creation of a disk image for use in digital forensics Acquisition (linguistic), process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language Acquisition (psychology), learning Acquisition stage, the time during which a conditional response first appears and when it increases in frequency Acquisition