make someone's acquaintance

acquaintance | American Dictionary

acquaintance
noun[ C/U ]
us/əˈkweɪn·təns/
a person whom you know but do not know well and who is therefore not exactly a friend
Acquaintance is also knowledge about something:
[ U ]The young have little acquaintance with real-life tragedy.

Examples of acquaintance

acquaintance
She successfully overcomes her fear of hurting casual acquaintances' feelings and ultimately, though tactfully, tells them the truth.
It seems that having successfully closed a deal, outgroup, unacquainted persons may now claim some form of acquaintance.
In this view acquaintances are plentiful, companions fewer, and intimates few and far between in a person's life.
We shall be remov'd from all our friends and acquaintance, and our poverty and meanness will by that means sit more easy upon us.
This operational definition of neighborhood social context does not equate a neighborhood with a cohesive community of friends and acquaintances.
This might suggest that personal acquaintance played an important role in selecting contributors.
Respondents provided information about the presence of children, children-in-law, grandchildren, siblings, siblings-in-law, other relatives, friends, colleagues, neighbours, members of organisations and other acquaintances.
To the military commanders of many of these countries, he strove to become an admired acquaintance, if not a close friend.
As already mentioned, denouncing a relative or an acquaintance guilty of embezzlement generates shame.
The relationships between fishermen and members of the non-fishing community are generally at the levels of friend or acquaintance.
Our newly found acquaintances claimed they were the descendants of two such converted families.
There was a common perception, based either on past experience or on the experiences of acquaintances, that statutory help was heavily restricted and inflexible.
But such a system was predicated on experimental acquaintance with compounds and their components.
The subjects of the biographies included mainly religious scholars and government officials, but also acquaintances and family members.
The potential and dilemmas here will interest anyone with a passing acquaintance with orchestras.
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Collocations withacquaintance

acquaintance

These are words often used in combination with acquaintance.

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casual acquaintance
That is why we see such a slapdash and casualacquaintance with the facts.
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