acquiring

The word “acquiring” has 3 syllables: ac-quir-ing

It's pronounced as /əˈkwaɪrɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for acquiring?

In the thesaurus, “acquiring” has 155 synonyms and 56 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for acquiring along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for acquiring

Antonyms for acquiring

  • abandoning
  • absence
  • according
  • casting
  • dearth
  • denial
  • deprivation
  • deserting
  • disagreement
  • disapproval
  • disbelief
  • disbursing
  • discarding
  • dispossession
  • dissension
  • dissent
  • ditching
  • division
  • dumping
  • failure
  • forfeit
  • forfeiting
  • forsaking
  • giving
  • giving up
  • granting
  • handing over
  • individual
  • jettisoning
  • junking
  • lack
  • losing
  • loss
  • need
  • opposition
  • paying
  • privation
  • refusal
  • rejecting
  • rejection
  • relinquishing
  • repudiation
  • scrapping
  • selling
  • separation
  • shedding
  • sloughing
  • sluffing
  • surrender
  • surrendering
  • throwing away
  • throwing out
  • unloading
  • veto
  • want
  • yielding

Meanings of acquiring

  • verb
    1. To get.
    2. To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own.
    3. To contract.
    4. To sample signals and convert them into digital values.

Example Sentences

  • She is acquiring new skills to improve her career prospects.
  • The company is acquiring several smaller businesses this year.
  • He is acquiring knowledge through extensive research.
  • Acquiring fluency in a new language requires dedication and practice.
  • The library is acquiring rare books to expand its collection.

On this page you'll find 211 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to acquiring, such as: abandoning, absence, absorbing, acceptance, accepting, accession, accomplishing.

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Related Words

caching

  • accumulating
  • acquiring
  • amassing
  • assembling
  • banking
  • burial
  • burying
  • coffering
  • collecting
  • concealing
  • concealment
  • concentrating
  • conserving
  • depositing
  • ensconcing
  • entombing
  • entombment
  • garnering
  • gathering
  • heaping
  • hiding
  • hoarding
  • holding
  • husbanding
  • interment
  • interring
  • keeping
  • laying away
  • laying by
  • laying in
  • laying up
  • picking up
  • piling
  • preserving
  • putting by
  • reserving
  • retaining
  • rounding up
  • salting away
  • saving
  • secreting
  • secretion
  • setting aside
  • setting by
  • stacking
  • stashing
  • stocking
  • stockpiling
  • storing
  • stowing
  • treasuring
  • withholding

earning

gaining

  • abduction
  • accelerating
  • accepting
  • accomplishing
  • accretion
  • accruing
  • accumulating
  • achievement
  • achieving
  • acknowledgment
  • acquiescence
  • acquirement
  • acquiring
  • acquisition
  • addition
  • admission
  • advancing
  • advantageous
  • affluent
  • afloat
  • afoot
  • agreement
  • alive
  • alluring
  • amassing
  • annexing
  • appreciating
  • apprehension
  • approaching
  • appropriating
  • appropriation
  • approval
  • arete
  • arguing
  • arrest
  • arrival
  • assent
  • assimilating
  • attaining
  • attainment
  • attracting
  • auspicious
  • bag
  • bagging
  • ballooning
  • beating
  • beguiling
  • blandishing
  • blarneying
  • blessed
  • blowing up
  • booming
  • boosting
  • born with a silver spoon
  • bourgeoning
  • brainwashing
  • bright
  • bringing
  • bringing around
  • bringing in
  • building up
  • bulking
  • burgeoning
  • bust
  • buy
  • cajoling
  • capturing
  • carrying
  • catch
  • catching
  • chalking up
  • charmed
  • chewing over
  • clearing
  • climbing
  • clutching
  • coaxing
  • collar
  • coming around
  • coming back
  • coming by
  • coming round
  • coming to
  • commandeering
  • completion
  • compliance
  • confiscating
  • confiscation
  • consent
  • continuing
  • convalescing
  • convenient
  • conversing
  • converting
  • convincing
  • cooperation
  • crescendoing
  • cresting
  • debating
  • discussing
  • disputing
  • distending
  • drawing
  • drop
  • earning
  • elevating
  • encouraging
  • enhancing
  • enlarging
  • enriching
  • ensnaring
  • enticing
  • entreating
  • equaling
  • equalling
  • escalating
  • excelling
  • exciting
  • exhorting
  • expanding
  • extending
  • fall
  • fast-talking
  • favorable
  • favored
  • feat
  • felicitous
  • finish
  • flourishing
  • fortuitous
  • fulfillment
  • functioning
  • gain
  • garnering
  • gathering
  • get a break
  • getting
  • go ahead
  • going
  • golden
  • grab
  • grasping
  • green light
  • grossing
  • happening
  • happy
  • healing
  • healthy
  • heightening
  • helpful
  • hit the jackpot
  • hitting
  • hook
  • hopeful
  • imprisonment
  • improving
  • in luck
  • in the gravy
  • inclining
  • increasing
  • inducing
  • inflating
  • influencing
  • inheriting
  • intensifying
  • interesting
  • jumping
  • knock off
  • knocking down
  • landing
  • laying hold of
  • leading on
  • learning
  • logging
  • lucky
  • luring
  • making
  • mastering
  • matching
  • maximizing
  • meeting
  • mending
  • mooting
  • mounting
  • moving
  • multiplying
  • mushrooming
  • nab
  • nail
  • netting
  • nod
  • obtaining
  • obtainment
  • occupation
  • occupying
  • okay
  • on a roll
  • ongoing
  • operating
  • opportune
  • outdoing
  • overcoming
  • overpersuading
  • peaking
  • permission
  • persuading
  • pick up
  • picking up
  • pinch
  • possession
  • prize
  • proceeding
  • procuration
  • procurement
  • procuring
  • profitable
  • proliferating
  • promising
  • prompting
  • property
  • propitious
  • prosperous
  • providential
  • pull
  • pulling down
  • pulling round
  • pulling through
  • purchase
  • pursuing
  • pursuit
  • racking up
  • rallying
  • reaching
  • reacquiring
  • realization
  • realizing
  • reaping
  • reattaining
  • recapturing
  • receipt
  • receiving
  • reception
  • recognition
  • recouping
  • recovering
  • recovery
  • recruiting
  • recuperating
  • redoubling
  • regaining
  • remaking
  • retrieval
  • reviving
  • ringing up
  • rising
  • rivaling
  • rivalling
  • rocketing
  • rolling up
  • rosy
  • run-in
  • salvage
  • satisfying
  • scoring
  • securing
  • seducing
  • seizing
  • seizure
  • selling
  • sitting pretty
  • skyrocketing
  • snapping back
  • snatching
  • snowballing
  • snowing
  • spreading
  • stepping up
  • stimulating
  • succeeding
  • successful
  • sunny side
  • surging
  • surpassing
  • surviving
  • swaying
  • sweep
  • swelling
  • taking
  • taking captive
  • taking in
  • taking into custody
  • taking on
  • taking over
  • tempting
  • thriving
  • tieing
  • timely
  • topping
  • touching
  • trapping
  • trip
  • triumphant
  • tying
  • undertaking
  • urging
  • victorious
  • waxing
  • wealthy
  • well-off
  • well-to-do
  • wheedling
  • winning
  • working
  • yes

racking up

bagging

  • abandoning
  • abducting
  • accomplishing
  • accumulating
  • achieving
  • acquiring
  • amassing
  • annexing
  • apprehending
  • approaching
  • arresting
  • attaining
  • ballooning
  • baying
  • beating
  • beetling
  • bellying
  • billowing
  • blowing up
  • bringing in
  • bulging
  • bunching
  • capturing
  • carrying
  • catching
  • chalking up
  • chucking
  • clasping
  • clearing
  • clutching
  • collaring
  • coming by
  • copping
  • cornering
  • corralling
  • detaining
  • dilating
  • distending
  • doming
  • drawing
  • earning
  • elongating
  • enmeshing
  • ensnaring
  • entangling
  • entrapping
  • equaling
  • equalling
  • excelling
  • expanding
  • extending
  • fisting
  • gaining
  • garnering
  • getting
  • giving notice
  • glomming
  • gloving
  • grabbing
  • grappling
  • grasping
  • gripping
  • grossing
  • haltering
  • hitting
  • holding
  • hooking
  • immeshing
  • inflating
  • jutting
  • kidnaping
  • kidnapping
  • knocking down
  • landing
  • lassoing
  • leaving
  • lengthening
  • logging
  • making
  • matching
  • meeting
  • meshing
  • mushrooming
  • nabbing
  • nailing
  • netting
  • nobbling
  • obtaining
  • occupying
  • outdoing
  • overhanging
  • picking up
  • poking
  • pooching
  • pouching
  • pouting
  • procuring
  • projecting
  • protruding
  • pulling down
  • quitting
  • racking up
  • rapping
  • reacquiring
  • realizing
  • reaping
  • reattaining
  • recapturing
  • regaining
  • remaking
  • rending
  • ringing up
  • rivaling
  • rivalling
  • roping
  • scoring
  • securing
  • seizing
  • snagging
  • snaring
  • snatching
  • snowballing
  • standing out
  • starting
  • sticking out
  • stretching
  • surpassing
  • swelling
  • taking over
  • throwing up
  • tieing
  • topping
  • touching
  • trapping
  • tying
  • vacating
  • winning
  • wresting

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