All acquire synonyms

verb acquire

• amass — If you amass something such as money or information, you gradually get a lot of it.
• earn — to gain or get in return for one's labor or service: to earn one's living.
• buy — If you buy something, you obtain it by paying money for it.
• get — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• win — to finish first in a race, contest, or the like.
• pick up — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
• bring in — When a government or organization brings in a new law or system, they introduce it.
• gain — to make a gain or gains in.
• have — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
• collect — If you collect a number of things, you bring them together from several places or from several people.
• promote — to help or encourage to exist or flourish; further: to promote world peace.
• achieve — If you achieve a particular aim or effect, you succeed in doing it or causing it to happen, usually after a lot of effort.
• take — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
• cop — A cop is a policeman or policewoman.
• land — Edwin Herbert, 1909–91, U.S. inventor and businessman: created the Polaroid camera.
• secure — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
• annex — If a country annexes another country or an area of land, it seizes it and takes control of it.
• gather — to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
• procure — to obtain or get by care, effort, or the use of special means: to procure evidence.
• wangle — to bring about, accomplish, or obtain by scheming or underhand methods: to wangle an invitation.
• snag — a tree or part of a tree held fast in the bottom of a river, lake, etc., and forming an impediment or danger to navigation.
• access — If you have access to a building or other place, you are able or allowed to go into it.
• attain — If you attain something, you gain it or achieve it, often after a lot of effort.
• catch — If you catch a person or animal, you capture them after chasing them, or by using a trap, net, or other device.
• grab — to seize suddenly or quickly; snatch; clutch: He grabbed me by the collar.
• corral — In North America, a corral is a space surrounded by a fence where cattle or horses are kept.
• hustle — to proceed or work rapidly or energetically: to hustle about putting a house in order.
• rack up — ruin or destruction; wrack.
• get hold of — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• latch onto — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
• lock up — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
• scare up — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
• obtain — to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request: to obtain permission; to obtain a better income.
• purchase — to acquire by the payment of money or its equivalent; buy.
• come by — To come by something means to obtain it or find it.
• develop — When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
• learn — to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience: to learn French; to learn to ski.
• take up — the act of taking.
• assimilate — When people such as immigrants assimilate into a community or when that community assimilates them, they become an accepted part of it.