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ac·quisi·tive [əˈkwɪzɪtɪv, Am -ət̬ɪv] ADJ pej

acquisitive
habgierig pej
the acquisitive society

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the acquisitive society

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English
Acquisitive crimes to pay for the chemicals are inevitable if the survivor is unable to find employment.
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Acquiring a piece of movable or immovable property by prescription is known as acquisitive prescription while losing property or a right is known as extinctive prescription.
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Acquisitive projective identification, where someone takes on the attributes of someone else.
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They could be considered an acquisitive society, often accused of thinking of nothing but how to earn money.
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This contributed to a huge change in the traditions, the sociolinguistic map, urbanisation and acquisitive power.
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The document outlines a fifteen-point belief system, which, in addition to a secular outlook, opposes acquisitive and profit-motivated society and outlines a worldwide egalitarian society based on voluntary mutual cooperation.
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Democracy depends on naval power; naval power in turn depends on the control of capital resources; ergo a democracy will tend to be aggressively acquisitive. 6.
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Activities are distinguished as conjunctive, protective, injurious, competitive, divulgative, gregarious, repetitive, initiative, acquisitive, selective; the social synergies as conformity, interdependence, cephalization, co-ordination, conscience, etc.
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Although sympathetic to his characters, he highlights their insular, snobbish, and acquisitive attitudes and their suffocating moral codes.
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Studying the isolated central nervous system; a report on 35 years: more inquisitive than acquisitive.
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