Acquisition may refer to: *

Takeover In business, a takeover is the purchase of one company (the ''target'') by another (the ''acquirer'' or ''bidder''). In the UK, the term refers to the acquisition of a public company whose shares are publicly listed, in contrast to the acquisi ...

, the purchase of one company by another *

Mergers and acquisitions Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are business transactions in which the ownership of a company, business organization, or one of their operating units is transferred to or consolidated with another entity. They may happen through direct absorpt ...

, transactions in which the ownership of companies or their operating units are transferred or consolidated with other entities *

Procurement Procurement is the process of locating and agreeing to terms and purchasing goods, services, or other works from an external source, often with the use of a tendering or competitive bidding process. The term may also refer to a contractual ...

, finding, agreeing terms and acquiring goods, services or works from an external source *

Library acquisitions Library acquisitions is the department of a library responsible for the selection and purchase of materials or resources. The department may select vendors, negotiate consortium pricing, arrange for standing orders, and select individual titles or ...

, department of a library responsible for the selection and purchase of materials *

Military acquisition Military acquisition or defense acquisition is the "bureaucracy, bureaucratic management and procurement process", dealing with a nation's investments in the technologies, programs, and product support necessary to achieve its national National ...

, the process of acquiring products for national defense *

Acquiring bank An acquiring bank (also known simply as an acquirer) is a bank or financial institution that processes credit or debit card payments on behalf of a merchant. The acquirer allows merchants to accept credit card payments from card issuers such as ...

, a bank or financial institution that processes credit or debit card payments on behalf of a merchant *

Acquisition (forensic process) The digital forensic process is a recognized scientific and forensic process used in digital forensics investigations. Forensics researcher Eoghan Casey defines it as a number of steps from the original incident alert through to reporting of findin ...

, the creation of a disk image for use in digital forensics *

Acquisition (linguistic) Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language. In other words, it is how human beings gain the ability to be aware of language, to understand it, and to produce and use words and s ...

, process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language * Acquisition (psychology), learning * Acquisition stage, the time during which a conditional response first appears and when it increases in frequency * Acquisition (''Star Trek: Enterprise'')

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