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Discover LudwigThe phrase "acquire to keep" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express the idea of obtaining something with the intention of retaining it, but the wording is awkward and unclear.
Example: "I want to acquire to keep the rare book I found at the sale."
Alternatives: "obtain for retention" or "gain to hold onto".
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Here are several items you can acquire to keep it that way.
And workers in their 50s need to think strategically about what skills they need to acquire to keep working longer, whether in their current career or a new line of work.
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The nature of the IT industry means that new skills must be continually acquired to keep up with the trends.
She mainly uses the information she acquires to keep the Netherlands Ministry of Economical Affairs up to date.
As a fast growing company eager to stay nimble and entrepreneurial, we can often preserve and leverage the culture of smaller, companies we acquire to help "keep us young".
Ordinarily there had to be a perceived labour shortage, for otherwise it is unlikely that most people would bother to acquire or to keep slaves.
When the plant's elderly director instructed him to acquire shares to keep them from an outsider, Mordashov kept most of them for himself.
The son of parents who were both mill workers, he rose to become the finance director of a steel mill, and then when the plant's elderly director instructed him to acquire shares to keep them from an outsider, Mordashov bought most of them for himself.
Autophagy, which is the internalization of damaged material within a cell, is an important survival mechanism for cancer cells to acquire energy to keep up with the demands of tumor growth [ 158].
However, memories of Virgin's tried-and-failed Little Red – the domestic air routes granted to Virgin as "remedy slots" after British Airways acquired BMI, to keep a modicum of competition – must loom large in the mind.
She adds that those who have recently become wealthy and have newly acquired assets to keep in the family, especially property, are particularly desperate for sons.In the long term, India can only smooth out its sex ratios by improving parents' attitudes to daughters (partly by using the touchy-feely methods of which Ms Deshpande is sceptical).
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