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From Middle English procuren, from Old French procurer, from Late Latin prōcūrāre (“to manage, administer”), from prō (“on behalf of”) + cūrō (“to care for”).

procure (third-person singular simple present procures, present participle procuring, simple past and past participle procured)

  1. (transitive) To acquire or obtain.
    Synonyms: get, gain, acquire, attain, obtain; see also Thesaurus:acquire
    • 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:
      if we procure not to ourselves more woe
    • 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:
      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.
    • 2025 February 5, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Southern”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 22:
      Folkestone: Network Rail and the White Cliffs Countryside Project have procured a herd of goats to keep vegetation on the slopes of Folkestone Warren under control, and to encourage rare species.
  2. (transitive) To obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else.
    Synonyms: buy, pander, pimp, purchase
  3. (transitive, criminal law) To induce or persuade someone to do something.
    Synonyms: convince, entice, prevail upon, put someone up to something; see also Thesaurus:persuade
  4. (obsolete) To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.
    Synonyms: devise, effectuate, implement
  5. (obsolete) To solicit; to entreat.
    Synonyms: beseech, plead, supplicate
  6. (obsolete) To cause to come; to bring; to attract.
    Synonym: draw

to acquire or obtain an item or service

to obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else

to induce or persuade someone to do something

Translations to be checked

procure

  1. inflection of procurer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

procure f

  1. plural of procura

procure

  1. alternative form of procuren

procure

  1. inflection of procurar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

procure

  1. inflection of procurar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

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