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  • noun A second or subsequent acquisition.

Etymologies

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re- +‎ acquisition

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Examples

  • As with the reacquisition of his middle name, there is meaning in that, somewhere.

    Shaun William Ryder – review 2011

  • Farther down the Main Road, at the fort, the American flag would be raised, making the reacquisition of Manhattan official.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • Farther down the Main Road, at the fort, the American flag would be raised, making the reacquisition of Manhattan official.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • Farther down the Main Road, at the fort, the American flag would be raised, making the reacquisition of Manhattan official.

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • A reacquisition, really, as I got rid of a damaged copy a few years back.

    This Week's Acquisitions 2008

  • Less than six months ago, the AMPTP wanted to enact profit-based residuals, defer all Internet compensation in favor of a study, forever eliminate "distributor's gross" valuations, and enforce 39 pages of rollbacks to compensation, pension and health benefits, reacquisition, and separated rights.

    Letter to Writers Guild Members 2008

  • With the formal reacquisition of state sovereignty, however, these countries often find themselves merely at the beginning of the journey towards the construction of genuine independence.

    Centesimus Annus 2008

  • That, along with the reacquisition of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, completely convinced me that Bob Iger wasn't just an Eisner clone, and was going to completely revitalize the company.

    Interview: Pixar and Disney Creative Chief John Lasseter! « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • A reacquisition, really, as I got rid of a damaged copy a few years back.

    The Little Professor: 2008

  • Government can help finance the reacquisition and restoration of previously privatized pieces of the commons.

    Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 9 2007

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