Acquire
Acquire verb - To come to have gradually.
Transfer
Transfer verb - To cause to go or be taken from one place to another.
Usage example: will have to transfer you from our San Francisco office to our New York headquarters
Common collocations
| soul | acquire soul | transfer soul |
| experience | acquire experience | transfer experience |
| ability | acquire ability | transfer ability |
| skill | acquire skill | transfer skill |
| Other words: energy, power, body, knowledge, parts, resources, money, information, cards, magic, evidence, items, skills, powers, weapons, memories, abilities. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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In Japan, depending on where you preordered from, you could acquire a special item (a gun, a box, or a staff member) to transfer forward into Phantom Pain.
- Samus happened to show up in the nick of time (on a mission unrelated to the war) and managed to acquire the Energy Transfer Module, which the Ing was close to obtaining and would have sealed their victory.
Source: Apocalypse How / Class 2 -
In BattleTech lore, Hauptmann Caradoc Trevena pulls this trick at an officer's card game to acquire the transfer of Leftenant Isobel Murdoch, an actual competent second-in-command, along with her Hunchback Battlemech, to his unit.
Source: Lost Him in a Card Game
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