to acquire a reputation

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• acquire — [[t]əkwa͟ɪ͟ə(r)[/t]] ♦♦♦ acquires, acquiring, acquired 1) VERB If you acquire something, you buy or obtain it for yourself, or someone gives it to you. [FORMAL] [V n] General Motors acquired a 50% stake in Saab for about $400m... [V n from n] I… …   English dictionary

• Reputation management — is the process of tracking an entity s actions and other entities opinions about those actions; reporting on those actions and opinions; and reacting to that report creating a feedback loop. All entities involved are generally people, but that… …   Wikipedia

• acquire — ac‧quire [əˈkwaɪə ǁ əˈkwaɪr] verb [transitive] 1. FINANCE to buy a company: • The group wants to acquire the company for $18 a share. 2. acquire a holding/​an interest/​a stake FINANCE to buy part of a company …   Financial and business terms

• reputation — n. 1) to acquire, establish a reputation 2) to have, hold a reputation (he had the reputation of being a heavy drinker) 3) to guard, protect one s reputation 4) to compromise, destroy, ruin, tarnish smb. s reputation 5) an enviable, excellent,… …   Combinatory dictionary

• acquire — 01. Personally, I ve never really [acquired] a taste for whiskey. 02. The artist [acquired] a lot of useful art supplies while shopping in the big city. 03. The [acquisition] of a number of original paintings by Vincent van Gogh was a major… …   Grammatical examples in English

• acquire — ac|quire [ ə kwaır ] verb transitive FORMAL ** to get something, for example by buying it or being given it: We acquired the company for 100 million dollars. newly acquired: his newly acquired BMW acquire something from someone: The business was… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• reputation — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ considerable, enviable, excellent, fine, good, great, high, impeccable ▪ She has built up an enviable reputation as a writer …   Collocations dictionary

• acquire */*/ — UK [əˈkwaɪə(r)] / US [əˈkwaɪr] verb [transitive] Word forms acquire : present tense I/you/we/they acquire he/she/it acquires present participle acquiring past tense acquired past participle acquired 1) formal to get something, for example by… …   English dictionary

• reputation */*/*/ — UK [ˌrepjʊˈteɪʃ(ə)n] / US [ˌrepjəˈteɪʃ(ə)n] noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms reputation : singular reputation plural reputations the opinion that people have about how good or how bad someone or something is He did not have a good… …   English dictionary

• reputation*/*/ — [ˌrepjʊˈteɪʃ(ə)n] noun [C/U] the opinion people have about how good or bad someone or something is The town has a bad reputation.[/ex] Clark had a reputation for arrogance.[/ex] Our university has an international reputation as a centre of… …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• acquire — verb Acquire is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑museum Acquire is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ability, ↑accent, ↑asset, ↑capital, ↑citizenship, ↑collection, ↑company, ↑competence, ↑confidence, ↑ …   Collocations dictionary