broadside, acquisitive, acquisition, waved gun

The Missouri Supreme Court indefinitely suspended the law licenses of two St. Louis attorneys, Mark McCloskey and Patricia McCloskey, who waved guns at Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020. KCUR 89.3



KCUR.ORG
Missouri Supreme Court disciplines St. Louis lawyers who waved guns at BLM protesters
The McCloskeys drew national headlines when they confronted a group of mostly Black protesters who had entered their gated community en route to demonstrate in front of the nearby home of a former St. Louis mayor in June 2020.




Ted Cruz meets Taiwan president and fires his own broadside at China

THEGUARDIAN.COM|由 ALAN YUHAS 上傳

And facing them were Kitaj, then 64, and his friends and fellow British painters – Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, Frank Auerbach and others – who, letters now reveal, disagreed among themselves about how this savage and apparently highly personal broadside might best be countered.

In a rare public broadside, IBM Chief Executive Samuel J. Palmisano said he doesn't worry about companies such as H-P that have slashed their investments in core technologies and need to make expensive acquisitions to keep up.

'Winter King'

By THOMAS PENN
Reviewed by MIRANDA SEYMOUR

Thomas Penn offers a portrait of the peaceful if acquisitive reign of Henry VII.

acquisitive[ac・quis・i・tive]

• 発音記号[əkwízətiv]

[形]

1 ((形式・しばしば軽蔑))（知識・情報などを）取得しようとする, （富・土地などを）得ようとする((of ...))；貪欲な, がめつい

the acquisitive instinct
物欲本能

an acquisitive mind
向学心［利欲心］（のある人）

be acquisitive of new ideas
新しい考えを求めている.

2 取得［獲得］することができる.

ac・quis・i・tive・ly

[副]

ac・quis・i・tive・ness

[名]

acquisition[ac・qui・si・tion]

• レベル：大学入試程度
• 発音記号[æ`kwəzíʃən]

[名]

1 [U]取得, 獲得, 入手；（企業）買収；習得

the acquisition of land
土地の取得

the acquisition of language
言語の習得.

2 ((形式))獲得物, 取得物, （特に）新戦力, 追加物, （コレクションなどの）新たな一品；新着図書

an acquisitions librarian
図書館の購入係

recent acquisitions to the library
新規収蔵図書

He is the team's newest acquisition.
彼はチームの新顔だ.

3 [U]《軍事》（レーダーなどによる目標の）捕捉(ほそく)

an acquisition and tracking radar
捕捉追尾レーダー.

broadside

n.

1. The side of a ship above the water line.
2. 1. All the guns on one side of a warship.
   2. The simultaneous discharge of these guns.
3. A forceful verbal attack, as in a speech or editorial.
4. 1. A large sheet of paper usually printed on one side.
   2. Something, such as an advertisement or public notice, that is printed on a broadside. Also called broadsheet.
5. A broad, unbroken surface.

adv.
With the side turned to a given point or object; sideways: The wave hit the canoe broadside and sank it.

tr.v., -sid·ed, -sid·ing, -sides.
To strike or collide with full on the side: lost control of the truck and broadsided the car.