acqui
acqui — verb
- acquipresent simple I / you / we / they
- acquis3rd person singular
- acquiing-ing form
- acquiedpast simple
1. to take over a business for its workers' skills rather than for what it makes or
to take over a business for its workers' skills rather than for what it makes or sells.
Theo's social-media app was small, but the search giant decided to acqui it for its engineers.
acqui + company for talent
Adaeze convinced the board to acqui the struggling game studio mainly for its AI researchers.
Rather than hire fifty people one by one, Nikos suggested they acqui a small firm whose team worked well together.
The cloud company plans to acqui several European software teams to bring their data scientists in-house.
Hui's AI startup was acquied last year, and she now leads the combined research team.
- acqui-hire
the fuller form of the same concept; slightly more common in business writing
- talent acquisition
broader HR term that covers all methods of bringing in skilled staff, not only buying companies
文法句型
acqui + company/organisation
用法筆記
Frequently used in the technology sector. The object is typically a young company or team whose main value is the staff's specialised knowledge. Past tense form 'acquied' is informal and not fully standardised.
常見錯誤
acqui — noun
- acquisingular
- acquisplural
1. the act of taking over a business specifically to gain the know-how of its peopl
the act of taking over a business specifically to gain the know-how of its people, not for the products or client base it already has.
The acqui of the robotics company brought ten experienced engineers to the parent firm.
the acqui of + company
Mateo showed the board that a $3M acqui beat two years of headhunter costs.
an acqui costs less than recruitment
PayFlow, a payment-app company, completed an acqui of Talia's encryption startup to strengthen its security team.
The board approved the acqui because the startup's research team had deep knowledge of battery technology.
Astrid, a venture capitalist, warned that SoftBank's many acqui deals were masking a failure to grow engineers internally.
- acqui-hire
fuller form; more common in journalistic coverage of tech M&A
- talent acquisition
formal HR term; broader — not limited to buying whole companies
文法句型
the acqui of + company
an acqui
用法筆記
Typically used in the singular. Common in technology-sector news and start-up culture. Often appears in the compound form 'acqui-hire' (noun) in formal business journalism.