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  2. Acquisition - Wikipedia

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    Acquisition (forensic process), the creation of a disk image for use in digital forensics; Acquisition (linguistic), process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language; Acquisition (psychology), learning; Acquisition stage, the time during which a conditional response first appears and when it increases in frequency

  3. Mergers and acquisitions - Wikipedia

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    "Acquisition" usually refers to a purchase of a smaller firm by a larger one. Sometimes, however, a smaller firm will acquire management control of a larger and/or longer-established company and retain the name of the latter for the post-acquisition combined entity. This is known as a reverse takeover.

  4. Glossary of mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers - Wikipedia

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    The anti-takeover strategy that involves restrictions in the charter on the acquisition of voting stock by individuals with a large percentage of the convertible securities, named for the trap that is designed to hold large lobster, while permitting small ones to escape. In particular, stipulating that a convertible debenture holder can not ...

  5. Military acquisition - Wikipedia

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    Military acquisition or defense acquisition is the "bureaucratic management and procurement process", [1] dealing with a nation's investments in the technologies, programs, and product support necessary to achieve its national security strategy and support its armed forces. Its objective is to acquire products that satisfy specified needs and ...

  6. Federal Acquisition Regulation - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) is the principal set of rules regarding Government procurement in the United States, [1] and is codified at Chapter 1 of Title 48 of the Code of Federal Regulations, 48 CFR 1. It covers many of the contracts issued by the US military and NASA, as well as US civilian federal agencies.

  7. Acqui-hiring - Wikipedia

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    Acqui-hiring (a portmanteau of "acquisition" and "hiring") is the acquisition of startups or other small companies primarily to acquire human capital. [1] [2] The term acqui-hire was coined in 2005. The phenomenon gained widespread attention in the 2010s due to media coverage of tech firms, although acqui-hiring has been reported in a variety ...

  8. List of largest mergers and acquisitions - Wikipedia

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    As of February 2024, the largest ever acquisition was the 1999 takeover of Mannesmann by Vodafone Airtouch plc at $183 billion ($345.4 billion adjusted for inflation). AT&T appears in these lists the most times with five entries, for a combined transaction value of $311.4 billion. Mergers and acquisitions are notated with the year the ...

  9. Age of acquisition - Wikipedia

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    Age of acquisition (AOA or AoA) is a psycholinguistic variable referring to the age at which a word is typically learned. For example, the word 'penguin' is typically learned at a younger age than the word 'albatross'. Studies in psycholinguistics suggest that age of acquisition has an effect on the speed of reading words.