Synonyms for acquiring
ac·quir·ing

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1. acquiring, gettingnoun

   the act of acquiring something

   "I envied his talent for acquiring"; "he's much more interested in the getting than in the giving"

   Synonyms:
   getting

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1. List of paraphrases for "acquiring":

   acquisition, acquire, obtaining, purchase, gaining, purchasing, gain, absorbing, buying

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1. Alan Perlis:

   It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical?

2. Cindy Huang:

   Third-party contractors fulfill important functions in the federal government, and our bureau and State Department were not unique in acquiring talent this way.

3. Monday Pilenko:

   The reaction from our major clients has been positive, I have received much encouragement to push ahead with this strategy, we have different alternatives. (Acquiring) a part of CGG was one. But we can look at alliances or other types of construction.

4. Primo Levi:

   The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.

5. Denis Diderot:

   There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.