"acquaintanceship" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It refers to the state or relationship of being acquainted or having a casual acquaintance with someone. Example: After weeks of working together on the project, our acquaintanceship deepened into a close friendship. Another example: Despite living in the same neighborhood for years, our acquaintanceship never progressed beyond polite hellos and small talk.
Gennady Timchenko said recently that while he and Putin knew one another, their relationship was one of casual acquaintanceship rather than friendship.
But Mr Valle Riestra has readily admitted to an acquaintanceship, adding indeed that Mr Montesinos and the armed-forces commander invited him to lunch last year to congratulate him on his strong line against the Tupac Amaru hostage-takers.Another top job has changed: Jorge Camet, Mr Fujimori's long-serving economy minister, has been replaced by Jorge Baca, head of the tax-collecting agency.
Career advancement and social prestige were among the vicarious benefits of a Murdoch friendship or acquaintanceship.
I didn't know what to say, for one thing, and I wasn't sure how big a step I wanted to take toward acquaintanceship, for another.
But the acquaintanceship between Bénouville and Schueller began in their pre-Second World War days, when both were disciples of Eugène Deloncle, the founder of a right-wing terrorist organization that aimed at bringing down the socialist government.
One by one, the subjects will muscle into your acquaintanceship and, here and there, your heart — Facebook for the ages.
These later tales expand the rolls of his acquaintanceship into, if not quite an Arthurian Round Table, a gallant brotherhood, "a small band... who have lived their lives under the sign of chance and adventure, and at the periphery of laws and codes created by men who, like Tartuffe, wish to justify their own paltry destinies".
After arriving in Glasgow he renews his acquaintanceship with the back bar at the Hotel Grosvenor and finds it as wonderful as ever.
It was my first experience of an online acquaintanceship morphing into a friendship.
This is sounding a little more than the casual acquaintanceship Ms. Paige has suggested.
This renewed acquaintanceship with the man in the mask is a brave endeavor, not least because you would be hard pressed to find a stage musical that has spawned a successful sequel: "Annie Warbucks," anyone?
