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nonacquisitional en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + acquisitional.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not acquisitional; not involving acquisition.
    • Ah, merde, in my haste to hit the streets I brought only five euros, so good mood or not, it's gonna be a cheap-girl day of nonacquisitional pleasure. 2006, Kirsten Lobe, Paris Hangover, page 53:
    • Nonacquisitional studies override developmental studies. 2014, Manel Lacorte, The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics, page 1988:
    • According to the authors, these techniques can provide orders of magnitude improvements in power consumption and increased accuracy of query results over nonacquisitional systems that do not actively control when and where data is collected. 2012, Albert Y. Zomaya, Young Choon Lee, Energy-Efficient Distributed Computing Systems: