as in greedy
having or marked by an eager and often selfish desire especially for material possessions
acquisitive developers are trying to tear down the historic home and build a shopping mall
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Recent Examples of acquisitive
Building out that platform and benefiting as more teams are plugged into it has meant Leonsis and MSE have stayed acquisitive.
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Ian Thomas, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
Retail e-commerce penetration had surged during the pandemic, which brought a rush of acquisitive capital into the space.
—Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Cybersecurity providers are becoming more acquisitive, with some looking to offer a full platform of products to customers that are seeking to save money by reducing vendors.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 30 July 2025
The competitive battle for smaller players continued into the early 1960s until antitrust laws curtailed the acquisitive sprees.
—Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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Ian Thomas, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
Retail e-commerce penetration had surged during the pandemic, which brought a rush of acquisitive capital into the space.
—Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Cybersecurity providers are becoming more acquisitive, with some looking to offer a full platform of products to customers that are seeking to save money by reducing vendors.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 30 July 2025
The competitive battle for smaller players continued into the early 1960s until antitrust laws curtailed the acquisitive sprees.
—Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for acquisitive
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Polaha plays Dick Hall, the president of Meridian Mortgage who is taken hostage by Tony Kiritsis (Ribisi), who publicly accuses him on being a greedy and cutthroat monster.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
24 Sep. 2025
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Left-wing antisemitism, which cast Jews as greedy capitalists, existed as well, especially in France, but Jew-baiting remained primarily a right-wing pursuit, the work of illiberal nativists who saw a tiny minority as polluting the purity of their racial or religious communities.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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Black and his co-writers soften the cold mercenary side of Parker by giving him something of a moral compass, which prompts him to toss $10,000 to the stranger’s wife before fleeing the scene.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
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Back when Dragon Ball Z was turning more Western audiences into anime fans, Berserk brought the tale of Guts and his mercenary adventures to startling life.—
Chris Snellgrove,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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To carry out her vision, McMahon has brought on at least 20 political appointees from ultraconservative think tanks and advocacy groups eager to de-emphasize public schools, which have educated students for roughly 200 years.—
Megan O’Matz,
ProPublica,
8 Oct. 2025
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Following the splashy release of Sora 2, Musk — a founder of OpenAI who left the board in 2018 and has since become a fierce critic of the company and Altman — appeared particularly eager to plug his competitor product.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
7 Oct. 2025
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But is better than the alternative of admitting to an avaricious Moscow that Ukraine must accept some kind of defeat.—
Nick Paton Walsh,
CNN Money,
24 Sep. 2025
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Manipulating these obviously very greedy and avaricious [people] is still kind of beneath his skills.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Aug. 2025
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For most players, that amount of storage is realistically enough for all but the most covetous data hoarders.—
Matt Kamen,
Wired News,
3 Aug. 2025
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This is, in part, correct: Voldemort is extremely covetous of power.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 June 2025
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“Acquisitive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/acquisitive. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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