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Acquisitive

//əˈkwɪzətɪv// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Acquired. obsolete
  2. 2
    Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring, greedy.

    "He is an acquisitive person."

  3. 3
    Dispositioned toward acquiring and retaining information.
Adjective
  1. 1
    eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas wordnet

Etymology

From an alteration of Latin acquisītus (“acquired, gained”), or possibly from acquisite + -ive.

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