Definition of "acquisitive" []

• Characterized by a strong desire to gain and possess. (adjective)
• Tending to acquire and retain ideas or information: an acquisitive mind. (adjective)

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• "Given MSFT cash position, being acquisitive is smart."
• "Police minister Vernon Coaker acknowledged the "new challenges" of burglary and other so-called acquisitive crimes."
• "The essential pulse of the flame, the very action of the cerebral temperature, brought to the highest point, yet extraordinarily contained -- these facts themselves were the immensity of the result; they were one with perfection of machinery, they had constituted the kind of acquisitive power engendered and applied, the necessary triumph of all operations."