Usually means: Gains possession or control of.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word acquires:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. acquires: Merriam-Webster
  2. acquires: Collins English Dictionary
  3. acquires: Vocabulary.com
  4. Acquires, acquires: Wordnik
  5. acquires: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. acquires: Wiktionary
  7. acquires: Dictionary.com
  8. acquires: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. acquires: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. acquires: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. acquires: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acquires: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acquires: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See acquire as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (acquire)

verb:  (transitive) To get.
verb:  (transitive) To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
verb:  (medicine) To become affected by an illness.
verb:  (computing) To sample signals and convert them into digital values.
verb:  (Canada, US, military) To begin tracking a mobile target with a particular detector or sight, generally with the implication that an attack on the target thereby becomes possible.
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