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Money-making :: Money-making (n.) The act or process of making money; the acquisition and accumulation of wealth.

Tulipomania :: Tulipomania (n.) A violent passion for the acquisition or cultivation of tulips; -- a word said by Beckman to have been coined by Menage.

Gain :: Gain (v. t.) The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation.

War :: War (n.) A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities..

Cost :: Cost (v. t.) To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life..

Acquist :: Acquist (n.) Acquisition; gain.

Usucaption :: Usucaption (n.) The acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law; -- the same as prescription in common law.

Learning :: Learning (n.) The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy..

Thrifty :: Thrifty (superl.) Thriving by industry and frugality; prosperous in the acquisition of worldly goods; increasing in wealth; as, a thrifty farmer or mechanic..

Acquisitive :: Acquisitive (a.) Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an acquisitive person or disposition..

Proficiency :: Proficiency (n.) The quality of state of being proficient; advance in the acquisition of any art, science, or knowledge; progression in knowledge; improvement; adeptness; as, to acquire proficiency in music..

Acquisition :: Acquisition (n.) The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition..

Acquisitively :: Acquisitively (adv.) In the way of acquisition.

Attainment :: Attainment (n.) That which is attained to, or obtained by exertion; acquirement; acquisition; (pl.), mental acquirements; knowledge; as, literary and scientific attainments..

Make :: Make (v. t.) To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money..

Acquest :: Acquest (n.) Acquisition; the thing gained.

Thrift :: Thrift (n.) Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity.

Purchase :: Purchase (v. t.) The acquisition of title to, or properly in, anything for a price; buying for money or its equivalent..

Acquisition :: Acquisition (n.) The act or process of acquiring.

Getting :: Getting (n.) The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.

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