acquisitive - use in sentences

Modifies a noun

  • overture: Of income you've lost off acquisitive overtures wound up with.
  • crime: About a third of the proceeds of acquisitive crime goes toward the purchase of heroin or crack.
  • growth: The business is one of the North West's fastest growing businesses with recent acquisitive growth.
  • society: We live in an acquisitive society where personal greed is accorded social respect.
  • group: The acquisitive group recently forked out £ 21 million for luxury jeweler Mappin & Webb.
  • client: We regularly top deals tables on the back of our practice in the corporate finance market which complements our work for established acquisitive clients.

Modifying Another Word

  • highly: Another luxury deal handled by Cavendish was the sale of jewelry chain Mappin & Webb to the highly acquisitive Icelandic investor Baugur.
  • very: He appears to have been very acquisitive in his ability to obtain prebends holding many during his life.
  • increasingly: From here however, the company became increasingly acquisitive and ambitious.
  • particularly: What are the links between drug use and crime, particularly acquisitive crime?

Used with adjective complement

  • become: I do slightly wonder whether maintaining this sort of list externally actually encourages you to become more acquisitive.

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