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. 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. Albert Einstein:

   Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

2. 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.

3. James Scott:

   It is important for people to understand that this study is specifically concerned with one particular germ that is increasingly implicated in hospital-acquired infections, this study really only applies to the specific environment of hospitals, and I'm confident that alcohol-based disinfectants will continue to remain highly effective in general use.

4. Dylan Farrow:

   I was disappointed to learn through press reports that Hachette, my publisher, acquired Woody Allen's memoir after other major publishers refused to do so and concealed the decision from me and Ronan Farrow book own employees while we were working on Catch and Kill -- a book about how powerful men, including Woody Allen, avoid accountability for sexual abuse.

5. Charles DeCarli:

   You can even think about that anthropologically, women may have developed skills and strategies over our evolutionary development to keep track of stuff that helps their memory that men just never acquired.

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