acquirer

2 definitions found

acquirer - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

acquirer - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  acquirer
      n 1: a person who acquires something (usually permanently)
      2: a corporation gaining financial control over another
         corporation or 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
         , acquirer]