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acquire (Receive), verb accept, achieve, adipisci, adopt, be given, come into possession of, derive, gain, glean, obtain, reap, take in, win acquire (Secure), verb adquirere, annex, appropriate, assume, assume ownership, attain, exact, extort, extract, force from, gain, get, make one's own, obtain by any means, purchase, realize, steal, take, take possession, wrest from Associated concepts: acquire a business, acquire by fraud, acquire by gift, acquire by inheritance, acquire by will, accuire for resale, acquire ownership Foreign phrases: Incorporalia bello non adquiruntur.Things incorporeal are not acquired in war. See also: accept, accrue, aggregate, appropriate, arise, attain, collect, condemn, derive, gain, garner, gather, hoard, impress, increase, incur, inherit, obtain, occupy, possess, procure, profit, purchase, realize, reap, receive, recover, seize, store, succeed, take TO ACQUIRE, descents, contracts. To make property one's own.
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" Perhaps more
importantly, as an acquirable and transferable body of objectifiable
knowledge, "culture" can be reduced to the level of problems
for which interventions, to be practiced upon the "cultured"
and their problematic differences, can be devised. To accommodate our model, a
triage-appropriate requirement must be quickly acquirable, highly
informative and realistically affordable (beyond the bounds of merely
cost vs. Bandura (1993) suggests that environments which
construe ability as an acquirable skill, de-emphasize competitive social
comparisons, and highlight self-comparison of progress and personal
accomplishments are well suited for building a sense of efficacy. |
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