acquisition.

1. The process of obtaining something or developing a skill or body of knowledge.

2. An object, asset, or organization that has been acquired.

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Words that belong together

• asset acquisition
• language acquisition

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The study examined language acquisition in bilingual households.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation, social science. Commonness: moderately common.