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Meanings of acquisitive in English
Portuguese
cobiçoso Catalan
acaparador Eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas.
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Examples for "cash-hungry"
Examples for "cash-hungry"
1
This would boost the economy by making cheaper loans available to cash-hungry enterprises.
2
So it's not clear what the Grins' longtime game plan is for this tiny cash-hungry company.
3
Demand from cash-hungry banks, particularly for the ECB cash, was hefty as lending between banks on money markets remained virtually paralysed.
4
The group says the mobile unit will hand out 85 percent of net profit to shareholders - including, of course, a cash-hungry parent.
5
Yar'Adua's critics say he risks undermining Nigeria's hard-won reputation for fiscal discipline if he fails to keep cash-hungry state governors from squandering the savings.
Usage of acquisitive in English
1
The shops gave her none of the acquisitive pleasure he had expected.
2
Convertibles are often used by fast-growing or acquisitive companies, like Just Eat.
3
The acquisitive Valeant has reasons to be receptive to such an arrangement.
4
Other acquisitive companies, like Groupon, have also been scrutinized for accounting troubles.
5
All art was divided originally by us into two branches-productiveand acquisitive.
6
Has there ever been a more lustrously acquisitive county cricket batting line-up?
7
Japanese companies, faced with a rapidly shrinking population, are seen as particularly acquisitive.
8
The deal is the third announced by the always-acquisitive Oracle in recent days.
9
The fate of many acquisitive companies is to do one deal too many.
10
A marginally acquisitive undercurrent could point you in the wrong direction!
11
Monday's deal tops up the media end of the acquisitive billionaire's communications empire.
12
They had abilities enough, but the sane acquisitive gift was not in them.
13
However, the recent upturn in prices gives Sonatrach a little more acquisitive muscle.
14
He is as acquisitive as a monkey and a magpie rolled into one.
15
Man is naturally competitive, acquisitive, and, in a greater or less degree, pugnacious.
16
This irritated Cowperwood, as it would always irritate any strong, acquisitive, direct-seeing temperament.
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Acquisitive through the time
Acquisitive across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common