an acquired taste

acquire | American Dictionary

acquire
verb[ T ]
us/əˈkwɑɪər/
to obtain or begin to have something:
His family acquired the property in 1985.
She acquired her love of the outdoors as a child.

acquire | Business English

acquire
verb[ T ]
uk /əˈkwaɪər/us
to buy or take control of a company or part of a company, often by buying shares in it:
They acquired a chain of about 20 phone shops.
acquire control/ownership of sthHe had just acquired control of the New York Times.
be acquired by sb/sthMutual of New York was later acquired by French insurance conglomerate AXA.
Many checkout staff acquired shares in the company.
MARKETING
to get the legal right to use or do something:
acquire rights to sthThe broadcaster did not disclose exactly how it acquired rights to the material.
to get something that is important to your business:
We've acquired a million new customers in a year.
It's a good time to acquire new talent.
WORKPLACE
to get something that is important to you in your job:
Aptitude tests attempt to judge a person's ability to acquire new skills.

Examples of acquire

acquire
Coordination problems abound, and their solutions are facilitated when players have the ability to quickly acquire expectations about fellow players' behavior.
When this occurs, the debate is no longer purely scientific, but acquires an "ideological" facet.
The share it acquired depended on the daughters' present circumstances, on whether they were unmarried, married, or returned from marriage as a widow or divorcée.
So, such representations could only be acquired as identical (' homophonous ').
Nevertheless, we consider them here for their insight into systems that acquire representations appropriate for a cognitive domain through a learning process.
Then, through the paths of the digraph representing the design problem decomposition, the dependent descriptor will eventually acquire its value.
In the present work we wanted to verify whether oocytes recovered from preantral follicles were able to acquire calcium activity during follicle culture.
And we can consider possible roles for computers in helping students acquire these necessary skills.
Other representations concerned with technical, cognitive and musical skills may be acquired concurrently.
In general, lower frequency words will tend to be encountered and acquired (and are also taught) later than higher frequency words.
For example, if the claimant suffered no loss, must wrongfully acquired gains be disbursed?
The degree of critical awareness that we believe intelligent international actors should acquire might appear to be a tall order.
In view of this, we could expect the subject gerunds to be the first to acquire the verbal traits characteristic of the participle.
Pollinaria are natural markers of insect visits to orchids, as there are no other obvious means by which they would be acquired by insects.
Effects of learning method and word type on acquiring vocabulary in an unfamiliar language.
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