Usually means: Getting to know someone, something.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word acquainting:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. acquainting: Merriam-Webster
  2. acquainting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. acquainting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Acquainting, acquainting: Wordnik
  5. acquainting: Wiktionary
  6. Acquainting, acquainting: Dictionary.com
  7. Acquainting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Acquainting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. acquainting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. acquainting: FreeDictionary.org
  11. acquainting: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acquainting: Legal dictionary

(Note: See acquaint as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (acquaint)

verb:  (transitive, followed by with) To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) know; to make familiar.
verb:  (transitive, archaic, followed by of or that) To communicate notice to; to inform; let know.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To familiarize; to accustom.
adjective:  (now chiefly Scotland) Acquainted.
▸ Also see acquaint


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