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Acquirer

noun

A person who acquires something (usually permanently).

A corporation gaining financial control over another corporation or financial institution through a payment in cash or an exchange of stock.

The financial institution that dispenses cash in automated teller machines and collects a fee from the bank that issued the credit card.

A credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing fee. Synonym: merchant bank.

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"Acquirer" Quotes from Famous Books

... books with a provenance, or in jackets made for them by Roger Payne—nay, in the original parchment or paper wrapper, or in a bit of real mutton which certain men call sheep. He was a person of literary tastes, and had written books in his day. But his chief celebrity was as an acquirer of those of others, provided always that they were old enough or rare enough. An item never passed into his possession without at once ipso facto gaining new attributes, almost invariably worded in a holograph memorandum on the fly-leaf. ...

— The Book-Hunter in London - Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting • William Roberts

... auxiliary in the publishing army." To sum up in Mr. Lee's words his interesting and convincing chapter on "Thomas Thorpe and Mr. 'W. H.'" "'Mr. W. H.,' whom Thorpe described as the 'only begetter of these ensuing sonnets,' was in all probability the acquirer or procurer of the manuscript, who, figuratively speaking, brought the book into being either by first placing the manuscript in Thorpe's hands or by pointing out the means by which a copy might be acquired. To assign such significance to the word 'begetter' was entirely in ...

— Browning's England - A Study in English Influences in Browning • Helen Archibald Clarke