acquisitive

Example Sentences

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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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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 The Wall Street Journal

It was a day in which an acquisitive foreign power had sent an uninvited delegation to the world's largest island with an uncomfortable message.

From BBC