Acquirer

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Acquirer \Ac*quir"er\, n.
     A person who acquires.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  acquirer
       n 1: a person who acquires something (usually permanently)
       2: a bank gaining financial control over another financial
          institution through a payment in cash or an exchange of
          stock
       3: the financial institution that dispenses cash in automated
          teller machines and collects a fee from the bank that
          issued the credit card
       4: a credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for
          credit card receipts less a processing fee [syn: {merchant
          bank}]