Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- That may be procured; obtainable: as, an article readily procurable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being procured; obtainable.
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- adjective Of things which may be
procured .
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- adjective capable of being obtained
Etymologies
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Examples
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The anticipation that a book will always be easily procurable is often unfounded, but, so long as the anticipation exists, it restrains collecting.
Book Collecting 1995
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We could then buy a change of underclothing, and daily consumed prodigious quantities of Dutch chocolate, also procurable from the canteen (which I afterwards bought in Holland for one-tenth of the price).
'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany Gerald Featherstone Knight
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Indeed, very few books were procurable from the Dutch at Deshima.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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The alcalde's permission to make use of the adjacent ground was obtained for a moderate consideration, and plenty of material was procurable from the opposite bank of the river.
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The industrious application of the smallest copper coin procurable, the humble farthing or the halfpenny, speedily converted the most insignificant abrasion of the skin into a festering sore.
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The OSS had discovered that “enemy sources” were selling some 1,500 pages of Russian codes on the black market, so “General Donovan took the only course open to a loyal ally in accepting this material as soon as he found it was procurable,” General Deane was to inform the NKGB chief.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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It happened that she made by far the finest cocktail procurable in that large city where drink-mixing on the part of the foreign population was indeed an art.
Chapter 29 2010
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She postulates on absurd assumptions that the futuristic forecast on the politico field deems procurable.
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The OSS had discovered that “enemy sources” were selling some 1,500 pages of Russian codes on the black market, so “General Donovan took the only course open to a loyal ally in accepting this material as soon as he found it was procurable,” General Deane was to inform the NKGB chief.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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The Kandahar Newsletter entry from June 8, 1891, also included the following: A Tahsildar has been appointed to collect all the 'Kaldar' rupees procurable in Kandahar.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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