The phrase "acquisition department" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific department within an organization that is responsible for acquiring goods, services, or assets.
Example: "The acquisition department is currently reviewing proposals from various vendors to ensure we get the best deal."
Alternatives: "procurement department" or "purchasing department".
"We were competing with another company that had more people in their acquisition department than we had in our entire company," he said.
In a letter to Time Warner, Steve Bornstein, the president of the network, wrote, "Unfortunately, it seems that TWC's content acquisition department cannot grasp that the NFL Network is more than eight games".
In 1980 he became head of the mergers and acquisition department and in 1986, he took sole responsibility for running the investment banking division, where he spent four years at the helm, helping to create Goldman's now formidable global finance presence.
Robert A. Profusek, the co-chairman of the mergers and acquisition department at Jones Day, said, "For the past 28 quarters we've done the most M.& A. It doesn't mean we're the Wal-Mart of M.& A. We just represent companies other than financial institutions and major private equity firms that have dominated the headlines in the past few years".
It has to become normal for young female law students to dream of a career in the mergers and acquisition department of a law firm as it is for their male fellow students.
The company's well stocked mergers and acquisition departments has hit a purple patch and is having the best year so far since before the financial crisis.
As director of commercial affairs he is responsible for Channel 4's commercial affairs, legal and compliance, corporate legal and programme acquisition departments, comprising some 80 staff made up of lawyers, production finance managers, rights administrators and other support staff.
He works in the securities, mergers and acquisitions department.
Mr. Knauss, 37, works in New York as a director of the mergers and acquisitions department at Credit Suisse First Boston.
BP usually uses its own mergers and acquisitions department to structure and execute deals.
He is a director in the acquisitions department of Clarion Partners in New York, a commercial real estate division of the ING Group.
