acquihire

Meanings

Verb

• To acquire a company to recruit its employees, rather than for its products or services.

Noun

• An acquisition of a company to recruit its employees, rather than for its products or services.

Origin

• Coined 2005 by Rex Hammock as acqhire, , in reference to acquisition of Dodgeball.com by Google. Hammock subsequently worked to popularize the word. Spelling inconsistent, particularly to difficulty in pronunciation (/ak-hire/), leading to longer variants.