The phrase "acquire around" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It is unclear what context you are trying to use it in, as "acquire" typically means to obtain something, while "around" does not logically fit with it.
Example: "I need to acquire around the necessary resources for the project." (This does not make sense.)
Alternatives: "obtain approximately" or "gather around".
Woot tries to acquire around 1,000 units of every item it sells, he said.
In this new credit environment, a $500 million fund might acquire around $1.5 billion of real estate, rather than the $2 billion it might have bought a year ago.
Were you to explain to an aunt in St . Louiswhat it is like to arrive home from grocery shopping to a third-floor walk-up with a stroller and a 15-month-old in January, she would first feel profoundly sorry for you and then send listings for the grand real estate you could easily acquire around the Mississippi River for the price of your 1,050 square feet here.
The Rolling Jubilee has already made its first debt purchase, Hanna said, spending $5,000 to acquire around $100,000 of debt.
Since then it's managed to acquire around a dozen VC customers, from the U.K. and the U.S., according to Piron.
Google has announced that it is making a $900 million bid to acquire around 6,000 patents and patent applications in Nortel's bankruptcy auction.
In the 10 weeks that the company has been in beta, it has acquired around 10,000 users who are investing in the platform.
Microsoft acquired around 4,700 employees in the country when it purchased substantial assets from Nokia, a deal that closed in April.
The Bellagio Child Survival Study Group concluded that neonatal deaths in low income countries were mostly due to sepsis acquired around and soon after birth, birth asphyxiation, and congenital abnormalities.
The Met is interested in acquiring around three units.
So the agencies he acquired around the world had to be right.
