Usually means: Make someone familiar with something.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word acquaint:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. acquaint: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. acquaint: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. acquaint: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. acquaint: Collins English Dictionary
  5. acquaint: Vocabulary.com
  6. Acquaint, acquaint: Wordnik
  7. acquaint: Wiktionary
  8. acquaint: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. acquaint: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. acquaint: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Acquaint, acquaint: Dictionary.com
  12. acquaint: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. acquaint: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Acquaint: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. acquaint: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. acquaint: Rhymezone
  17. acquaint: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. acquaint: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. acquaint: Free Dictionary
  20. acquaint: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. acquaint: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. acquaint: Merriam-Webster.com

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acquaint: Idioms

(Note: See acquainted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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