Procure

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To get by special effort; obtain or acquire: managed to procure a pass.
  • v. To bring about; effect: procure a solution to a knotty problem.
  • v. To obtain (a sexual partner) for another.
  • verb-intransitive. To obtain sexual partners for others.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To acquire or obtain an item or service, sometimes rare, usually by extra effort.
  • v. To obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else.
  • v. To induce or persuade someone to do something.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To bring into possession; to cause to accrue to, or to come into possession of; to acquire or provide for one's self or for another; to gain; to get; to obtain by any means, as by purchase or loan.
  • v. To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.
  • v. To solicit; to entreat.
  • v. To cause to come; to bring; to attract.
  • v. To obtain for illicit intercourse or prostitution.
  • verb-intransitive. To pimp.
  • verb-intransitive. To manage business for another in court.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To care for; give attention to; look after.
  • To bring about by care and pains; effect; contrive and effect; induce; cause: as, he procured a law to be passed.
  • To obtain, as by request, loan, effort, labor, or purchase; get; gain; come into possession of.
  • To prevail with unto some end; lead; bring.
  • To solicit; urge earnestly.
  • Synonyms To provide, furnish, secure, compass.
  • Obtain, etc. See attain.
  • To pander; pimp.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. arrange for sexual partners for others
  • v. get by special effort
  • Verb Form
    procured    procures    procuring   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    provide    cater    supply    ply   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    gain    get    contrive    effect    cause    solicit    entreat    bring    attract    pimp   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Baldur    Bloor    Moor    Moore    Muir    Ruhr    Ur    allure    assure    bonjour   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    hurry    achmed    well-digested    possess    contain    origami    ashore    lookt    krill