acquisitive
Example Sentences
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Danaher has a history of being acquisitive, and the company is already a big player in diagnostics and other medical technology.
Billionaire businessman Brad Jacobs has built QXO into a leading building-materials firm with more than $2 billion in quarterly sales, using the same acquisitive approach he applied to enterprises in waste management and logistics.
Deputy Chief Constable Jayne Meir, the NPCC's first lead for freight crime, said a new team at Opal - a police intelligence unit tackling organised acquisitive crime - would start targeting the issue next year.
From BBC
The acquisitive power of the very rich is soaring.
European engineers and entrepreneurs since the dot-com boom of the 1990s have flocked to the U.S. for its acquisitive consumers, bountiful funding and love of innovation.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
