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Acquirable

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ac·quire  (-kwr)
tr.v. ac·quired, ac·quir·ing, ac·quires
1. To gain possession of: acquire 100 shares of stock.
2. To get by one's own efforts: acquire proficiency in math.
3. To gain through experience; come by: acquired a growing dislike of television sitcoms.
4. To locate (a moving object) with a tracking system, such as radar.

[Middle English acquere, from Old French aquerre, from Latin acqurere, to add to : ad-, ad- + quaerere, to seek, get.]

ac·quira·ble adj.
ac·quirer n.
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Adj.1.Acquirableacquirable - capable of being acquired
available - obtainable or accessible and ready for use or service; "kept a fire extinguisher available"; "much information is available through computers"; "available in many colors"; "the list of available candidates is unusually long"

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" Perhaps more importantly, as an acquirable and transferable body of objectifiable knowledge, "culture" can be reduced to the level of problems for which interventions, to be practiced upon the "cultured" and their problematic differences, can be devised.
To accommodate our model, a triage-appropriate requirement must be quickly acquirable, highly informative and realistically affordable (beyond the bounds of merely cost vs.
Bandura (1993) suggests that environments which construe ability as an acquirable skill, de-emphasize competitive social comparisons, and highlight self-comparison of progress and personal accomplishments are well suited for building a sense of efficacy.
 
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