Acquisition; the obtaining or procuring of something by effort, labor, sacrifice, work, conquest, art, etc., or by the payment of money or its equivalent; procurement; acquirement, Prey; booty; plunder; hence, ill-gotten gain or wealth, The act of seeking and acquiring property, transitive verb_ To pull or haul by means of a mechanical device, such as a winch, To obtain in exchange for money or its equivalent; buy, To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance