"occasional acquisition" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It could be used to describe a company's strategy of buying other businesses or products on an irregular basis. For example, "The company adopted an occasional acquisition policy to diversify its portfolio of products."
What these moves show is that Citrix is in the midst of a pivot where it is trying to shed products that it sees as outside of its core mission, while making the occasional acquisition to augment that mission.
Crucially, however, both prestige and similarity bias are vulnerable to the occasional acquisition of maladaptive behaviour when such behaviour is exhibited by prestigious or similar individuals.
Such endosymbionts could possibly explain the occasional acquisition of immunity protein domains by eukaryotes and their viruses (which might share the host cell with the resident bacteria; Tables 2 3).
Since then, further significant donations and occasional acquisitions have turned the museum into a major repository of African art.
The vesicomyid symbionts may use a mixed strategy for transmission with predominant vertical transmission punctuated by occasional lateral acquisition events [ 31].
Phillips Additions Aside from the occasional gift, acquisitions were never a priority at the Phillips Collection in Washington.
He lives with his longtime girlfriend, Diana Taylor, the former State Superintendent of Banks, and their two Labradors, Bonnie and Clyde, in a five-story Beaux Arts town house that, as a result of occasional targeted acquisitions in the neighboring building to the east, is effectively a double-wide.
Now, rather than more big purchases, Ecolab is looking for occasional bolt-on acquisitions to build on what it hopes will be organic growth of 6-8% a year.Investors seem convinced, judging by the soaring share price.
Our early acquisitions were occasional and random, made mostly during the summer at yard and house sales on eastern Long Island and then in northwest Connecticut, near our summer rentals.
Discordance between host and parasite phylogenies, however, provides the first evidence for occasional host-switches or acquisitions of novel infections from the environment.
Taylor acknowledges the "occasional raised eyebrow" about his acquisitions, but he doesn't mind.
