Definition of Obtain

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Obtain

To gain or have a firm footing; to become recognized or established; to become or be prevalent or general; as, the custom obtains of going to the seashore in summer.

To hold; to keep; to possess.

To get hold of by effort; to gain possession of; to procure; to acquire, in any way.

To become held; to gain or have a firm footing; to be recognized or established; to subsist; to become prevalent or general; to prevail; as, the custom obtains of going to the seashore in summer.

To prevail; to succeed.

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Obtain Quotations

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Buddha

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Dalai Lama

Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin Franklin

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
Jim Morrison

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Thomas Paine

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
Thomas Paine

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
Epicurus

Obtain Translations

obtain in Afrikaans is verwerf, behaal
obtain in Dutch is verkrijgen, buit maken
obtain in Finnish is hankkia
obtain in French is obtenez, parvenir, obtenons, procurer, obtiennent
obtain in German is erreichen, bekommen, bekommen
obtain in Italian is ricevere, procurare, conseguire, ottengo
obtain in Latin is quaero, mereo, acquiro, adipiscor, sumo
obtain in Portuguese is adquirir, obter, obtenha
obtain in Spanish is agenciar, acoger, conservar

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