The phrase "remote acquaintance" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who is known to a person but not very well, such as someone they have met briefly or only heard about from others. Example: I have a remote acquaintance who works in the same office building as me, but we have only greeted each other in passing and never had a conversation.
I love the Internet, which allowed me to track down remote acquaintances of Wasserstein's in hours rather than weeks.
Even accepting that the bureau defines "known to the victim" in the broadest sense, to include remote acquaintances, the figures are revealing.
Remote acquaintances will be much more useful, because they're farther afield, yet still socially intimate enough to want to help you out.
I know for me his getting it has quite demystified the disease, said Jan, I don't feel afraid, spooked, as I did before he became ill, when it was only news about remote acquaintances, whom I never saw again after they became ill.
In a similar fashion, Schlegel argued that in order to appreciate art productions from past cultures and remote nations, an acquaintance not only with the actual work of art is indispensable, but also with its historical and cultural background: it is imperative to understand the peculiarities of their culture and history as a whole.
The historian John Davies describes Bute as "dour, remote and overbearing on first acquaintance" but with a "sense of responsibility, considerable imagination and an enormous capacity for hard work".
Dred-Peacock's genius in the legal procedure of acquiring remote "townships" was immeasurable, and an old acquaintance from Duquet's first years in New France, Jacques Forgeron, scouted out the best timberland.
Now she has chosen to renew that acquaintance by visiting Kate and her husband, Deeley (Mr. Sewell), in their remote, ocean-side house, and to revisit a past that they did or didn't share.
An acquaintance who once accompanied Mr. Hopler at a firing range said Mr. Hopler used a remote-controlled bell to locate the target, firing at the sound.
