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Acquisition

ELI5

A buyer’s purchase or licence of particular rights in a completed or developing project.

Used in conversation

“The deal needs to state acquisition clearly before it is signed.”

Definition

A buyer’s purchase or licence of specified rights in a completed or developing project.

Here “Acquisition” means: A buyer’s purchase or licence of specified rights in a completed or developing project.

Pitch context

You may encounter “Acquisition” in rights, contracts, finance, distribution & labour conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains who controls, pays for, approves, exploits or bears risk around a project.

Caution

Meaning and consequences may change by contract, collective agreement, territory or law. This entry is orientation, not legal advice.

Sources & evidence · 8

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.