acquisitive

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"The problem with Bank of America is that they've been so acquisitive, they find themselves with very little in tangible equity."

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  1. adjective Characterized by a strong desire to gain and possess.
  2. adjective Tending to acquire and retain ideas or information: an acquisitive mind.

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  • Above all, such a being would be repelled by the entrepreneurs of the new design: the pushing, acquisitive, unchivalric representatives of mass man who, filling the vacuum left by the default of the old order, began to take over both political and economic power- the "rednecks" symbolized by William Faulkner as the Snopes family. —  Coughlan, Robert - Private World of William Faulkner
  • Their fathers belonged to the older generation of Jews, industrious and acquisitive, attached to the spirit of their race, building their fortunes with keen energy, and enjoying their energy much more than their fortunes. —  Jean-Christophe, Vol. I
  • When she began to go to school Emma indicated that   she had an apt, acquisitive, and retentive mind; she progressed   rapidly in her studies, but her health was totally inadequate, so at   the age of twelve years she was compelled to abandon her studies Shortly thereafter she removed with her family to Chicago. —  Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions, v2
  • Awakening preachers sought to review God's covenant with America and to repudiate the materialistic, acquisitive, corrupt world of an affluent colonial society. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • We're going to have to be acquisitive, which we obviously were in 2008 and I think we did it very successfully. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
 

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  1. from Latin as if *acquisitivus, from acquisitus, past participle: see acquisite.
 

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/əˈkwɪzɪtɪv/
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