acquire, put the kibosh on. secure a deal to release hostages and pause combat. Capybara

U.S., Sensing Opportunity, Makes New Push for Gaza Cease-Fire

William Burns, the C.I.A. director, planned to meet Israeli, Egyptian and Qatari officials to try to secure a deal to release hostages and pause combat.

Jane Garrett at her home in Massachusetts in 1996. She began as an editor and special assistant to Alfred A. Knopf himself, before acquiring her own books for the publishing house.Credit...Lionel Delevingne for The New York Times

Jane Garrett, Book Editor With a Prizewinning Touch, Dies at 88

In 44 years at Knopf, she shepherded history books that won a raft of Pulitzers — seven in all — as well as Bancrofts, although one recipient set off a furious debate.

The museum, hoping to acquire the treasured Chardin artwork, has requested that it be classified as a French national treasure.

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Squish! The Louvre Puts the Kibosh on the $26.8 Million Sale of Chardin’s Record-Setting Strawberry Painting |

CNET Google aims to put kibosh on Android antitrust lawsuit CNET Turn on an Android phone or tablet, and you'll find that Chrome, Gmail and other Google apps are typically set up as the default programs. Is that a ...

acquire

/əˈkwʌɪə/

verb

1. 1.

   buy or obtain (an asset or object) for oneself.

   "I managed to acquire all the books I needed"

   Similar:

   obtain

   come by

   come to have

   get

   receive

   gain

   earn

   win

   come into

   come in for

   take possession of

   take receipt of

   be given

   buy

   purchase

   procure

   possess oneself of

   secure

   gather

   collect

   pick up

   appropriate

   amass

   build up

   hook

   net

   land

   achieve

   attain

   get one's hands on

   get one's mitts on

   get hold of

   grab

   bag

   score

   swing

   nab

   collar

   cop

   Opposite:

   lose

   part with
2. 2.

   learn or develop (a skill, habit, or quality).

   "you must acquire the rudiments of Greek"

Line breaks: ki¦bosh

Pronunciation: /ˈkʌɪbɒʃ /(also kybosh)

Definition of kibosh in English:

NOUN

(in phrase put the kibosh on) informal

Put an end to; dispose of decisively:he put the kibosh on the deal

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Origin

mid 19th century: of unknown origin.

A Capybara bathes in the hot spring water at the Saitama Children's zoo in Higashi Matsuyama city in Japan's Saitama prefecture.

AFP Photo: Toshifumi Kitamura

水豚在埼玉縣兒童動物園裡在日本埼玉縣東松山市溫泉水中沐浴。..新社照片： 敏北村