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Adjective: acquisitive  u'kwi-zi-tiv
  1. Eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas
    "an acquisitive mind"; "an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied"

See also: accumulative, acquisitiveness, avaricious, covetous, grabby [N. Amer, informal], grasping, greedy, plundering, possessive, predaceous, predacious, predatory, prehensile, rapacious, ravening, sordid, voracious

Antonym: unacquisitive

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