French English Dictionary

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acquis in English:

1. procured


Most of the money which went into the machinery was procured through the efforts of R. U. Darby, who was then a very young man.
And soon after I procured Xenophon's Memorable Things of Socrates, in which there are many instances of the same method.

English word "acquis"(procured) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Our Katie" (Anonymous)
Fiches du livre - "The Factory Boy" (Madeline Leslie)
Fiches du livre - "Fire-making Apparatus" (Walter ...
Fiches du livre - "The Skating Party and Other Sto...
Fiches du livre - "The O. S. U. Naturalist (Vol. I...

2. acquired


He acquired American citizenship.
Reading is the kind of habit that once acquired is never lost.
You might not like this beer at first. It's an acquired taste.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
abilities acquired
In 1890, the colony acquired its own government.
Acquired by sin - there's no profit within.
Though commonsense is necessary for everyone, it is not always easily acquired.
Once a habit has been acquired, it has almost compulsive power over us.
Linguistic competence is inborn, not acquired.
It has been acquired by another company.
The laboratory acquired a fabulous reputation for its historic discovery.
He acquired a vast amount of wealth in these few years.
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Hastily acquired knowledge was not enough to solve the problem.

English word "acquis"(acquired) occurs in sets:

Fiches du livre - "Handyman" (Frank Banta)
Fiches du livre - "The Highland Fling and How to T...
Fiches du livre - "A New Subspecies of the Black M...
Fiches du livre - "The Great Round World and What ...