The phrase "acquire lifelong" is not correct as it stands and lacks clarity in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to express the idea of obtaining something that lasts for a lifetime, but it typically needs additional context or modification to be clear.
Example: "Through dedicated study and practice, you can acquire lifelong skills that will benefit you in your career."
Alternatives: "gain lifelong" or "attain lifelong".
It is assumed that recovered individuals acquire lifelong immunity against re-infection.
Nurses must continually build best practice into their care and acquire lifelong learning.
The patients with peripheral nerve injuries acquire lifelong disability and require posttrauma peripheral nerve rehabilitation treatments following a growing number of traffic and work accidents, natural disasters, and military activity that cause disability associated with loss of sensory and motor functions and, in some cases, intractable pain.
Here Bob acquired his lifelong love of cricket, played rugby and did well academically.
The bacilli are quickly sequestered in the tissues, and the infected person acquires a lifelong immunity to the disease.
He acquired his lifelong passion for Old Masters — Piero della Francesca was a god to him — and embraced the Depression-era fashion of Social Realism.
WHEN Banyan was a boy, growing up in north London and acquiring a lifelong but largely unrewarding affection for his local soccer team, Tottenham Hotspurs, English football was a parochial affair.
Merkel said that if, for example, someone came to Germany from eastern Europe and worked only for a short time but acquired a lifelong claim on welfare benefits, "then I see a question about which we must talk again".
He left college to join the US Army Air Corps and served with great bravery (Distinguished Flying Cross with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart, Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters, Bronze Star, etc) in World War II and Korea, attaining the rank of Captain in the USAF and acquiring a lifelong love of flying.
After a stint in the marines in post-war China, where he acquired his lifelong taste for alcohol and whorehouses, Peckinpah flouted his father's wishes for a career in the law and signed up for drama school, first at Fresno State and then USC, and spent most of the 1950s honing his (mainly adaptive) writing skills and directorial chops in local theatre and then television.
In this challenging instructional atmosphere Charles acquired his lifelong habit of thinking through philosophical and scientific problems entirely on his own.
