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  • adjective that which is had beforehand

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Examples

  • He mentioned so-called "pre-acquired account marketing," the practice of one company charging a consumer for a service by receiving credit account information from another company where the consumer did business, rather than directly from that person.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • Increasingly, especially where there is significant pre-acquired wealth or children from an earlier family to provide for, individuals are turning to prenups to enable them to marry without feeling excessively exposed, especially in the light of extremely high and often controversial payouts in the English family courts.

    Britain's Top Divorce Lawyer On Prenups, Princesses, And Billionaire Splits Huffington Post 2011

  • Increasingly, especially where there is significant pre-acquired wealth or children from an earlier family to provide for, individuals are turning to prenups to enable them to marry without feeling excessively exposed, especially in the light of extremely high and often controversial payouts in the English family courts.

    Britain's Top Divorce Lawyer On Prenups, Princesses, And Billionaire Splits Huffington Post 2011

  • The consultation paper therefore asks, first, whether couples should be able to enter into a binding agreement not to seek ancillary relief in the event of divorce or dissolution and, secondly, whether such agreements should be able to encompass all of a couple's property or to contain only terms relating to pre-acquired, gifted or inherited property.

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • Customers that use a pre-acquired account or a free to pay conversion must always give a minimum of the last four digits of their credit card or account number in order for the transaction to be valid.

    PR.com Press Releases Affinion Group 2010

  • I wrote about this practice, also known as pre-acquired account marketing, last November.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • Charging a consumer for a service without receiving credit account information directly from that person is called pre-acquired account marketing.''

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • Zumbox. com, to the pre-acquired user, is perceived as a free product!

    Igniting Startups - nPost 2009

  • Requiring that the consumer gives - at a minimum - the last four digits of their account or credit card number for every online transaction involving pre-acquired account information and a free to pay conversion.

    The Orange County Register - News Headlines : News 2009

  • The FTC currently requires telemarketers that engage in pre-acquired account marketing to obtain the last few digits of the account to be charged from the consumer.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2009

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