Meaning & use
Reacquire
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to gain possession of something again after having lost or given it up
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The founder reacquired the company he had sold a decade earlier.
It took months of practice to reacquire the fluency she'd lost living abroad.
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Often used in business news for a company buying back a subsidiary, brand, or asset it previously sold off.
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