nonacquisitional

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ acquisitional

Adjective[edit]

nonacquisitional (not comparable)

  1. Not acquisitional; not involving acquisition.
    • 2006, Kirsten Lobe, Paris Hangover, page 53:
      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.
    • 2012, Albert Y. Zomaya, Young Choon Lee, Energy-Efficient Distributed Computing Systems:
      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.
    • 2014, Manel Lacorte, The Routledge Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics, page 1988:
      Nonacquisitional studies override developmental studies.