acqui
acqui — 動詞
- 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
人才購併
為人才而收購公司
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.
Theo 的社群媒體應用程式規模不大，但那家搜尋巨頭為了它的優秀工程師團隊而決定進行人才購併。
acqui + company for talent
Adaeze convinced the board to acqui the struggling game studio mainly for its AI researchers.
Adaeze 說服董事會對那家經營困難的遊戲工作室進行人才購併，主要是為了它的 AI 研究人員。
Rather than hire fifty people one by one, Nikos suggested they acqui a small firm whose team worked well together.
與其一個個地聘請五十名工程師，Nikos 建議他們對一家團隊默契已經很好的小型公司進行人才購併。
The cloud company plans to acqui several European software teams to bring their data scientists in-house.
這家雲端公司計劃對幾家歐洲軟體團隊進行人才購併，把他們的資料科學家納入內部。
Hui's AI startup was acquied last year, and she now leads the combined research team.
Hui 的 AI 新創公司去年被人才購併，如今她領導合併後的研究團隊。
- 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 — 名詞
- acquisingular
- acquisplural
1. the act of taking over a business specifically to gain the know-how of its peopl
人才收購
為獲取人才而購買公司
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.
那家機器人公司的人才收購，為母公司帶來了十位經驗豐富的工程師。
the acqui of + company
Mateo showed the board that a $3M acqui beat two years of headhunter costs.
Mateo 向董事會說明，一筆三百萬美元的人才收購比花兩年支付獵人頭費用更划算。
an acqui costs less than recruitment
PayFlow, a payment-app company, completed an acqui of Talia's encryption startup to strengthen its security team.
PayFlow 這家支付應用程式公司完成了對 Talia 加密技術新創公司的人才收購，藉此強化其安全團隊。
The board approved the acqui because the startup's research team had deep knowledge of battery technology.
董事會批准了這項人才收購，因為該新創公司的研究團隊對電池技術有深入的認識。
Astrid, a venture capitalist, warned that SoftBank's many acqui deals were masking a failure to grow engineers internally.
創投家 Astrid 警告，SoftBank 過多的人才收購案正掩蓋其內部培養工程師能力的不足。
- 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.