Acquisition may refer to: *

Takeover In business, a takeover is the purchase of one company (the ''target'') by another (the ''acquirer'' or ''bidder''). In the UK, the term refers to the acquisition of a public company whose shares are publicly listed, in contrast to the acquisi ...

, the purchase of one company by another *

Mergers and acquisitions Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are business transactions in which the ownership of a company, business organization, or one of their operating units is transferred to or consolidated with another entity. They may happen through direct absorpt ...

, transactions in which the ownership of companies or their operating units are transferred or consolidated with other entities *

Procurement Procurement is the process of locating and agreeing to terms and purchasing goods, services, or other works from an external source, often with the use of a tendering or competitive bidding process. The term may also refer to a contractual ...

, finding, agreeing terms and acquiring goods, services or works from an external source * Library acquisitions, department of a library responsible for the selection and purchase of materials *

Military acquisition Military acquisition or defense acquisition is the "bureaucracy, bureaucratic management and procurement process", dealing with a nation's investments in the technologies, programs, and product support necessary to achieve its national National ...

, the process of acquiring products for national defense *

Acquiring bank An acquiring bank (also known simply as an acquirer) is a bank or financial institution that processes credit or debit card payments on behalf of a merchant. The acquirer allows merchants to accept credit card payments from card issuers such as ...

, a bank or financial institution that processes credit or debit card payments on behalf of a merchant *

Acquisition (forensic process) The digital forensic process is a recognized scientific and forensic process used in digital forensics investigations. Forensics researcher Eoghan Casey defines it as a number of steps from the original incident alert through to reporting of findin ...

, the creation of a disk image for use in digital forensics * Acquisition (linguistic), process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language * Acquisition (psychology), learning * Acquisition stage, the time during which a conditional response first appears and when it increases in frequency * Acquisition (''Star Trek: Enterprise'')

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