Preacquisition
noun
1.
the act of acquiring or gaining possession:
the acquisition of real estate.
2.
something acquired; addition:
public excitement about the museum’s recent acquisitions.
3.
the purchase of one business enterprise by another: the acquisition of a rival corporation;
mergers and acquisitions.
4.
Linguistics. the act or process of achieving mastery of a language or a linguistic rule or element:
child language acquisition; second language acquisition.
noun
1.
the act of acquiring or gaining possession
2.
something acquired
3.
a person or thing of special merit added to a group
4.
(astronautics) the process of locating a spacecraft, satellite, etc, esp by radar, in order to gather tracking and telemetric information
acquisition ac·qui·si·tion (āk’wĭ-zĭsh’ən)
n.
The empirical demonstration in psychology of an increase in the strength of the conditioned response in successive trials in which the conditioned and unconditioned stimuli are paired.
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