The phrase "acquired cheap" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that was obtained at a low cost or price.
Example: "The rare book was acquired cheap at a local flea market, much to my surprise."
Alternatives: "purchased at a low price" or "obtained inexpensively."
(Salomon Smith Barney, an investment bank, reckons long-term profits from Asia will fall below half the bank's total, to 46%.) Having acquired cheap troubled banks, such as Brazil's Bamerindus in 1997 and South Korea's Seoulbank this year, HSBC is conscious of big strategic holes notably in America and continental Europe.
As crime rose and property values dropped on Davenport's west end, Goacher acquired cheap real estate, including a shack once known as Skipper's Popcorn Palace.
These modalities are suitable because they are easily acquired, cheap and provide high-resolution images.
It also acquired cheaper office space and asked employees to take salary cuts.
Developers hope to acquire cheap land, put in a minimum of infrastructure and sell it.
Now that the markets are recovering, the managers say, acquiring cheap companies is more challenging.
Positioned between China and India, two huge and antagonistic neighbors, the regime has been able to play on their mutual suspicions to acquire cheap arms and make favorable trade deals.
Critics like John McGettrick, co-chairman of the Red Hook Civic Association, say that Mr. O'Connell has been more adept at acquiring cheap land from the government than in making good on his promises, citing a half-mile esplanade and a park that he has yet to deliver.
The energy industry is now in a mess, as is the airline industry, another important GE customer.As GE Capital has grown, its prized triple-A credit rating has come under pressureThings ought to be brighter for GE's financial businesses, collectively called GE Capital, which have in the past thrived in recession by acquiring cheap assets.
Attempts at reform have focused on cobbling together constituencies that would stand to gain from specific changes: businesses eager to acquire cheap workers; labor unions interested in organizing newly legalized foreigners; advocacy groups out to protect the rights of immigrants who are toiling with little recourse to law.
Just being a part of that gang sent a message: I run with rebels".The Weinsteins got into the film business by acquiring cheap foreign films, then recutting and distributing them in the United States; one of the first was The Secret Policeman's Ball in 1981.
