{
  "id": "get.acquisition",
  "term": "get",
  "sense": "acquisition",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "EmergenceLexicon",
  "domain": "verb",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "you make a thing come to you",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "make.verb",
      "come.arrive"
    ],
    "interaction": "by making, you cause the thing to move through space until it is at your location",
    "novel_properties": [
      "possession created",
      "intentional acquisition"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The James Webb Space Telescope used a precisely timed thruster burn to capture itself into orbit around L2.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "Walmart's supply chain algorithm triggered shipments from distribution centers to restock toilet paper in Florida after Hurricane Ian.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The CRISPR-Cas9 complex in Streptococcus pyogenes captures a segment of viral DNA for integration into the bacterial genome.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "control.ability",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    },
    {
      "id": "come.arrive",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "asks.social",
    "available.accessible",
    "bid.offer",
    "buy.economic",
    "competition.social",
    "customer.economic",
    "education.learning",
    "finance.economic",
    "find.search",
    "game.playful",
    "login.digital",
    "purchase.economic",
    "receive.communication",
    "says.speech",
    "school.education",
    "science.knowledge",
    "shop.commercial",
    "take.acquisition"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "get",
    "gets",
    "getting",
    "got",
    "gotten"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-get.acquisition"
}