The phrase "acquaintance has been" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the status or nature of a relationship with someone you know casually or informally.
Example: "My acquaintance has been very helpful in providing advice on my career choices."
Alternatives: "my contact has been" or "my friend has been".
This is not even metaphorical in every instance; more than one person of my acquaintance has been handed at Christmas an unambiguous hunk of anthracite.
A family acquaintance has been charged with two counts of murder in the stabbing deaths of a 25-year-old woman and her 6-year-old daughter, whose bodies were found in their Bronx apartment on Tuesday, the police said on Wednesday.
The traditional definition of an acquaintance has been somebody you would recognize and greet in a chance encounter.
If your acquaintance had been given a name like "Grementine" or "Tootie," I doubt it would soon be forgotten.
Most of the golfers & tennis players of our acquaintance have been fanatical partisans of the one pastime or the other for years, quite irrespective of politics.
Most of the golfers & tennis players of our acquaintance have been fanatical partisans of the one pastime or the other for years, quite irrespective of politics..
Bobby Simpson, a 53-year-old construction worker at the Rangers' game, said that even before the new law, an acquaintance had been jailed overnight for inserting an unflattering reference to the pope in a traditional Rangers song.
Her initial meeting with Lady Brittan, initially said to be through a "mutual acquaintance", had been changed to a "third party" by the time the last version was produced.
Or: "Greetings Pandit Shankar, I am deeply honored to make your acquaintance, having been gifted with your name and with it the motivation to live up to your majestic reputation".
But neighbors and the camp's proprietor identified the trailer's owner as Gary Heiland, a pipefitter and gun enthusiast, and said that he, a girlfriend and a male acquaintance had been found dead at the end of a siege that involved scores of officers, including sharpshooters who had fired no shots and hostage negotiators who had no opportunity to speak to the suspect.
And now they're becoming acquisition targets: Learn That Name, a game that uses your LinkedIn contacts to help you remember the names of your business acquaintances, has been acquired by Gist.
