The phrase "immediate acquaintance" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to someone who is known or familiar to someone else, but not necessarily a close friend or intimate acquaintance. Example: "After moving to a new town, I quickly made several immediate acquaintances through my job and local community events."
Ordinary proper names (such as "Socrates") had other functions than to denote, but logically proper names ("this" was Russell's example) served simply to pick out objects of immediate acquaintance.
This immediate acquaintance with the canvas is analogous to the actual having of the emotion (religious or otherwise).
In Russell's case, having 'analyzed away' the definite description, what is then shown is just what commitments remain to logical constants and concepts, which may in turn require further analysis to 'reduce' them to things of our supposed immediate acquaintance.
But asked if Mr. Caliguire could expand his base of support much beyond his immediate acquaintances, the former governor tempered his admiration with realism.
Among our immediate acquaintances, we had been the first to have a baby, and had got used to being slightly ahead, the knowledgeable ones.
Correspondingly, the benefit derived from social networking sites (e.g. Facebook) is highly dependent on the activities and contributions of one's immediate social acquaintances, whose identities in turn depend some complicated mixture of social and spatial distance [11].
It seems to me that many men don't view females outside their immediate family circle or acquaintance as "equal, valuable or of high moral standing".
Not many can claim this kind of idiomatic dominion, especially with people outside their immediate circle of close comrades and acquaintances.
It's like watching a 24-hour news channel devoted to your own little corner of the universe, peopled by a cast of characters from your immediate network of personal friends and acquaintances.
They embrace meaningful interactions, sometimes with strangers outside their immediate circle of friends, coworkers, and acquaintances a kind of social risk-taking they may be more open to because of their familiarity with social media, not despite it.
OPM has determined that the files taken included Social Security numbers; residency and educational history; employment history; information about immediate family and other personal and business acquaintances; health, criminal and financial history and other details.
