Synonyms for acquires
ac·quires

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1. List of paraphrases for "acquires":

   buys, acquire, becomes, purchases, obtains

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1. Joseph Addison:

   From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.

2. Laurence J. Peter:

   Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

3. Abigail Adams:

   The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.

4. Aristotle:

   Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in imitation is universal.

5. Lewis Lapham:

   Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.