procure

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Mr. Webster immediately complied with the request, and has dispatched instructions to Mr. Marsh, the American Minister at Constantinople, to procure from the Turkish Government the release of the Hungarians The frigate St. Lawrence has sailed from New-York for Southampton, with articles for the World's Fair.

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  1. transitive verb To get by special effort; obtain or acquire: managed to procure a pass.
  2. transitive verb To bring about; effect: procure a solution to a knotty problem.
  3. transitive verb To obtain (a sexual partner) for another.

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  • Proposal by the shareholders Matti Ikonen, Matti Liimatainen and Annina Kaeppi Shareholders Matti Ikonen, Matti Liimatainen and Annina Kaeppi propose to the AGM that Stora Enso Oyj no longer procure from the Finnish state enterprise Metsaehallitus any wood from forest areas in forest Lapland that nature conservation organisations have designated as rare contiguous wilderness areas formed by old-growth forests, bogs and fells. —  News
  • The essentials of all the Degrees may be procured at slight expense; and it is at the option of every Brother to procure or not to procure, as he pleases, the dress, decorations, and jewels of any Degree other than the 14th, 18th, 30th, and 32d We teach the truth of none of the legends we recite. —  Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
  • Unfortunately the Barotse natives of that region can procure from the Portuguese traders all the firearms and ammunition that they can pay for, and by treaty they retain their hunting rights. —  Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
  • Mr. Webster immediately complied with the request, and has dispatched instructions to Mr. Marsh, the American Minister at Constantinople, to procure from the Turkish Government the release of the Hungarians The frigate St. Lawrence has sailed from New-York for Southampton, with articles for the World's Fair. —  The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
  • Of Major David Secord, the only record I have been able to procure is to be found in A History of the Late War between Great Britain and the United States of America, by David Thompson, late of the Royal Scots_, as quoted for me by the kind courtesy of Miss Louisa Murray, of Stamford. —  Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. and Other Poems.
 

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  1. Middle English procuren, from Old French procurer, to take care of, from Latin prōcūrāre : prō-, for; see pro-1 + cūrāre, to care for (from cūra, care; see cure).

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  1. from Middle English procuren, from Old French procurer, French procurer = Spanish Portuguese procurar = Italian procurare, from Latin procurare, take care of, care for, look after, manage, administer, be a procurator, also make expiation. from pro, for, before, + curare, care for, look after, from cura, care: see cure.
 

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