The phrase "acquisition fever" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a heightened enthusiasm or urgency for acquiring assets, companies, or resources, often seen in business contexts.
Example: "During the tech boom, many companies experienced acquisition fever, leading to a flurry of mergers and acquisitions."
Alternatives: "merger mania" or "buying frenzy".
To be sure, the wireless industry in the United States has been gripped by acquisition fever, most recently with Deutsche Telekom's planned acquisition of the VoiceStream Wireless Corporation for more than $50 billion, which was announced last week.
But the acquisition fever rampant on Wall Street has made a distinct impact upon executives, many of whom find it difficult to resist the "bigger is better" theory of survival.
The mergers and acquisitions fever that is currently sweeping across Europe is a testament to the quality of its companies and the massive potential for further corporate restructuring.
"The market is gripped by M&A [mergers and acquisitions] fever.
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The Instagram acquisition fuels start-up fever, and Om Malik explains why Facebook spent all that money: "Facebook is essentially about photos, and Instagram had found and attacked Facebook's Achilles' heel — mobile photo sharing".
The mathematician, 53, who has persuaded millions to buy into Deutsche Telekom since 1996, has been lambasted for a near 90% decline in share prices following a two-year acquisition spree; the buying fever left the group with 67 billion euros ($68 billion) of debt.
Between marriages, I've reached such fevers of acquisition that I twice resorted to sleeping on mattresses laid not atop a box spring but on a pallet of cartons, the only way to disguise the excess without resorting to storage.
This trend began in earnest in the mid- to late-1980s, when mergers and acquisitions activities reached a fever pitch at the same time that commissions were getting squeezed thinner and thinner.
During the Bloomberg era, which it now officially seems appropriate to talk about in the past tense, the term global city came into wide use to describe a New York not where strivers from around the world come to settle, but where the wealthy from London or Moscow or Mumbai merely pass through in a fever of luxury acquisition.
In case you haven't noticed, storage networking has been a hot area this year, rekindling hopes for some muscular merger and acquisition activity and sending a bit of speculative fever into potential targets.
