Definitions for acquired
ac·quired

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1. acquiredadjective

   gotten through environmental forces

   "acquired characteristics (such as a suntan or a broken nose) cannot be passed on"

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1. acquiredadjective

   Developed postfetally; not congenital.

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1. Acquiredparticip. adj.

   Gained by one’s self, in opposition to those things which are bestowed by nature.

   Etymology: from acquire.

   We are seldom at ease, and free enough from the solicitation of our natural or adopted desires; but a constant succession of uneasinesses, out of that stock, which natural wants, or acquired habits, have heaped up, take the will in their turns. John Locke.

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1. Acquired

   of Acquire

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'acquired' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2677

How to pronounce acquired?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say acquired in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of acquired in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of acquired in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of acquired in a Sentence

1. Steven Rabinowitz:

   Generally speaking, in the absence of a pre-nup, assets acquired during a marriage are split 50-50, assets acquired before the marriage typically remain each spouse's separate property unless those assets were comingled with marital assets or were converted to marital assets (such as by changing the title on the asset from separate to joint).

2. Tim Wilson:

   If you look at what's being acquired, everyone is filling in product gaps.

3. Johann Georg von Zimmermann:

   Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

4. Frank Attenello:

   This increased hospital-acquired condition rate is significant because we found presence of at least one hospital-acquired condition to be associated with an 83 percent likelihood of increased healthcare cost and a 38 percent increase in the likelihood of a prolonged hospital stay.

5. Research Professor Suzanne Carbotte:

   The level of detail in the images we can acquire with this technology can’t be acquired any other way and there are a whole host of questions that can be addressed only with the high resolution of the structures and properties of the subsurface that we can obtain.

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