acquisitionEnglishOxford English Thesaurusacquisition noun 1 the gallery's Bronze Room will house a new acquisition: purchase, accession, addition, asset; buy, investment, possession, accretion; property, goods. 2 the acquisition of funds for the war effort: obtaining, acquiring, gaining, gain, procuring, procurement, collecting, collection, attainment, appropriation, amassing.acquisition Oxford Dictionary of English