See procure in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:",
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"text": "Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall.",
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"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1:",
"text": "The famous Briton prince and faery knight, […] / Of the fair Alma greatly were procured / To make there lenger soiourne and abode.",
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"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:",
"text": "if we procure not to ourselves more woe",
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"ref": "1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:",
"text": "Later there would also be need for seeds and artificial manures, besides various tools and, finally, the machinery for the windmill. How these were to be procured, no one was able to imagine.",
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"(transitive, criminal law) To induce or persuade someone to do something."
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"ref": "1551, Thomas More, translated by Ralph Robinson, Utopia:",
"text": "By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach.",
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"ref": "c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:",
"text": "Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall.",
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"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1:",
"text": "The famous Briton prince and faery knight, […] / Of the fair Alma greatly were procured / To make there lenger soiourne and abode.",
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"ref": "c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:",
"text": "What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?",
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"To cause to come; to bring; to attract."
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"(obsolete) To cause to come; to bring; to attract."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "polučavam",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "получавам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "nabavjam si",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "набавям си"
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"code": "yue",
"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"roman": "wok⁶ dak¹",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "獲得 /获得"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "verwerven"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "verkrijgen"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "hankkia"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "acquérir"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "obtenir"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "beschaffen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "erwerben"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "besorgen"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "aufbringen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "verschaffen"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "beibringen"
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"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "ktáomai",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "κτάομαι"
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"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "porízomai",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "πορίζομαι"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "beszerez"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "szerez"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "megszerez"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "szert tesz"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "procurare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "approvvigionare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "acquistare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "ottenere"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "haha"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "kaitaonga"
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{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "skaffe"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "tilveiebringe"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "obter"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "conseguir"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dostavátʹ",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "достава́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dobyvátʹ",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "добыва́ть"
},
{
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "labhate",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "लभते"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "skaffa"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "införskaffa"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "anskaffa"
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{
"code": "txb",
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "täk-"
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{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "derkazhen",
"sense": "to acquire or obtain an item or service",
"word": "דערקאַזשען"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "svodniča",
"sense": "to obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else",
"word": "своднича"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else",
"word": "parittaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "proxénétisme"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else",
"word": "zuführen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else",
"word": "kuppeln"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else",
"word": "vermitteln"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else",
"word": "kerít"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "svodničatʹ",
"sense": "to obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else",
"word": "сводничать"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to induce or persuade someone to do something",
"word": "yllyttää"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to induce or persuade someone to do something",
"word": "anstiften"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to induce or persuade someone to do something",
"word": "verleiten"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to induce or persuade someone to do something",
"word": "überreden"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to induce or persuade someone to do something",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "stręczyć"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podgovárivatʹ",
"sense": "to induce or persuade someone to do something",
"word": "подгова́ривать"
}
],
"word": "procure"
}
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