Acquisition may refer to:

General

• Customer acquisition, the process of gaining customers
• Mergers and acquisitions, a corporate strategy dealing with merging and acquiring different companies
• The process of gathering a signal from a communications satellite
• The process whereby the Government obtains things in Government contracts
• Acquisition (linguistic), the process of language development in humans
• Acquisition (psychology), the process of learning
• Acquisition (software), an open source based peer-to-peer client for Mac OS X

Star Trek

• Acquisition (Enterprise episode), a first season episode of the television show Star Trek: Enterprise
• Rules of Acquisition, set of guidelines intended to ensure the profitability of businesses owned by the ultra-capitalist Ferengi in the fictional Star Trek universe