The phrase "acquired ground" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one is discussing territory, knowledge, or advantages that have been gained or obtained.
Example: "The company has acquired ground in the competitive market by introducing innovative products."
Alternatives: "gained ground" or "secured territory".
There have been many reports, all unconfirmed, that the guerrillas have acquired ground-to-air missiles.
One of the main attractions of moving to the suburbs is acquiring ground of your own, yet you can travel for miles through suburbia and see no one doing anything in a yard other than working on the yard itself (often with the help of a riding lawnmower, one of the few four-wheeled passenger vehicles that get worse gas mileage than a Hummer).
In situ optical instruments, i.e. hemispherical photography and a SunScan device, were used to acquire ground LAI measurements.
As acquiring ground measurements of soil moisture is labor intensive, it is often limited in space (to a few locations) and time (to a small number of campaigns).
Systematic survey of peat presence and its thickness is hindered by the logistical difficulties of accessing remote areas to acquire ground based data.
The White House opposed a bid in Congress on Tuesday to tighten enforcement of rules limiting foreign ownership of U.S. airlines that if approved could disrupt plans by Germany's Deutsche Post to acquire ground delivery operations at Seattle-based Airborne Inc. OPEC Aims To Keep Cartel Basket At $25 Per Barrel.
They further propose a method of transfer learning to capitalize on such sporadic information gathered when the user interacts with the environment to acquire ground truth labels that can be used to train existing on-body sensors into recognizing these activities [58].
Major E & P companies like Shell have jumped at the opportunity to acquire ground that had been dominated for decades with little to no work conducted, mostly by European State oil & gas companies in this former French protectorate.
Costs that occur in acquiring ground-based data are for field work and travel.
