The word 'acquisitions' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in a business context to refer to the process of obtaining assets and rights through purchase, investment, or other means. For example, "Our company is actively pursuing acquisitions to expand our operations."
Green shoot rating 3 out of 5 Mergers and acquisitions have been all but non-existent since the credit crunch took hold, but figures from the Zephyr database, which tracks such activity, shows the value of deals in the first three months of this year up 40% on 2008 levels to £214bn.
Several private collectors, meanwhile, donated vast acquisitions of Aboriginal ethnographic material – secret and sacred objects, bark art, hunting weapons and Indigenous bones and body parts.
Jorge Mendes, the agent, transfer intermediary and adviser to third-party ownership (TPO) funds, is a close friend of Lim and has been significantly involved with the acquisitions of Rodrigo and Gomes, as well as other moves to Valencia.
But amid all the joshing, it must be remembered that Souness, who began his managerial career by transforming Scottish football with bold and astute signings for Rangers, also made some shrewd acquisitions while at Anfield.
The data sought was on the order of a "mergers and acquisitions analysis", the sort of due diligence that another firm interested in buying Fatima might conduct, including "an abundant amount of financial and investor data that would illuminate with whom Fatima interacted".
The firm has 434 UK sports stores and 270 elsewhere in Europe, having grown rapidly via acquisitions of failed rivals and unloved brands to dominate Britain's high streets with its low prices.
Through clever acquisitions and tight accounting, Stevens enabled the group to make huge profits.
Even in the increasingly less sober post-big bang City he was a glamorous figure, and with Polly Peck soaring into the FTSE 100 through a series of diverse acquisitions that included Russell Hobbs and the giant fruit-canning Del Monte empire, he became one of the City's, as well as one of the Tories', favourite businessman.
That's the US firm's record in three major acquisitions over 14 years.
Tony Hayward [the ex-BP boss now running Genel Energy] said he is looking for acquisitions but I have news for him that his own company is being looked at".
The world of Big Oil looks set for another round of mega-mergers and acquisitions after Shell set the ball rolling this week with its $70bn agreement to take over BG.
