# Acquisition

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**Acquisition** may refer to:

- [Takeover](/source/Takeover), the purchase of one company by another
- [Mergers and acquisitions](/source/Mergers_and_acquisitions), transactions in which the ownership of companies or their operating units are transferred or consolidated with other entities
- [Procurement](/source/Procurement), finding, agreeing terms and acquiring goods, services or works from an external source
- [Library acquisitions](/source/Library_acquisitions), department of a library responsible for the selection and purchase of materials
- [Military acquisition](/source/Military_acquisition), the process of acquiring products for national defense
- [Acquiring bank](/source/Acquiring_bank), a bank or financial institution that processes credit or debit card payments on behalf of a merchant
- [Acquisition (forensic process)](/source/Acquisition_(forensic_process)), the creation of a disk image for use in digital forensics
- [Acquisition (linguistic)](/source/Acquisition_(linguistic)), process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language
- [Acquisition (psychology)](/source/Acquisition_(psychology)), learning
- [Acquisition stage](/source/Classical_conditioning#Acquisition), the time during which a conditional response first appears and when it increases in frequency
- [Acquisition (*Star Trek: Enterprise*)](/source/Acquisition_(Star_Trek:_Enterprise))

## See also

- *[Acquire](/source/Acquire)*, board game
- [Acquire (company)](/source/Acquire_(company))
- [Acquired characteristic](/source/Acquired_characteristic)
- [Acquired lands](/source/Acquired_lands)
- [Acquired taste](/source/Acquired_taste)
- [Buy (disambiguation)](/source/Buy_(disambiguation))
- [Get (disambiguation)](/source/Get_(disambiguation))
- [Taken (disambiguation)](/source/Taken_(disambiguation))
- [Taker (disambiguation)](/source/Taker_(disambiguation))
- [The Take (disambiguation)](/source/The_Take_(disambiguation))

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