acqhire

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A form of acquihire — To acquire a company, in particular a small startup, to recruit its employees, rather than for its products or services.

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Meanings

nounacqhire (plural acqhires)

plural acqhires

  1. alternativeAlternative form of acquihire.

    Acqhire – When a large company “purchases” a small company with no employees other than its founders, typically to obtain some special talent or a cool concept. (See, also: NFL first round draft signing bonus; book publishing “advance” after publisher bidding-war.)

    2005 May 11, Rex Hammock, “Google acquires(?) Dodgeball.com”, in Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, archived from the original on 07 Nov 2012
verbacqhire (third-person singular simple present acqhires, present participle acqhiring, simple past and past participle acqhired)

present singular third person acqhires · participle present acqhiring · participle past acqhired · past acqhired

  1. alternativeAlternative form of acquihire.
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APA

acqhire. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/acqhire

MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “acqhire,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/acqhire.

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