recipient vs acquirer

recipient and acquirer both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
recipient	Yes	No	No	No
acquirer	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, acquirer is a hypernym of recipient; that is, acquirer is a word with a broader meaning than recipient:

recipient (noun)	acquirer (noun)
the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause	a corporation gaining financial control over another corporation or financial institution through a payment in cash or an exchange of stock
a person who receives something	the financial institution that dispenses cash in automated teller machines and collects a fee from the bank that issued the credit card
	a credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing fee
	a person who acquires something (usually permanently)