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UK
/ɐkwˈeɪntənsʃˌɪp/
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[ US /əˈkweɪntənsʃɪp/ ]
[ US /əˈkweɪntənsʃɪp/ ]
NOUN
- a relationship less intimate than friendship
How To Use acquaintanceship In A Sentence
- And he kind of refired his acquaintanceship with Alger and Priscilla Hiss. The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox: A Year in the Life of a Supreme Court Clerk in FDR�s Washington
- Acquaintanceship imposes its own discipline and obligation.
- Through his acquaintanceship with Robert Curl, Kroto learned that it should be possible to use Smalley's instrument to study the vaporisation and cluster formation of carbon, which might afford him evidence that the long-carbon-chain compounds could have been formed in the hot parts of stellar atmospheres. Press Release: The 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- I took my systems surrender, hypnotic it inhumanely etiology indistinguishable the ramous intransitively orumiyeh, and acquaintanceship out isopteran ajax of retrieval. Rational Review
- The decision to replace someone is often taken on the basis of acquaintanceship, on the principle of personal devotion or, more abhorrently, for money.
- It was unfair to judge her on such a brief acquaintanceship.
- As a result, we have become very insular, and my parents in particular have found it difficult to form lasting friendships, or indeed temporary acquaintanceships.
- Haply some one was jealous of thy good fortune and threw out certain hints concerning thee to the King, by reason whereof he is become enraged against thee with rage so violent: but be of good cheer; no harm shall befal thee; for, even as thou entreatedst me generously, without acquaintanceship between me and thee, so now I will deliver thee. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- It was unfair to judge her on such a brief acquaintanceship.
- It was unfair to judge her on such a brief acquaintanceship.