Definition of Procure

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Procure

To bring into possession; to cause to accrue to, or to come into possession of; to acquire or provide for one's self or for another; to gain; to get; to obtain by any means, as by purchase or loan.

To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.

To solicit; to entreat.

To cause to come; to bring; to attract.

To obtain for illicit intercourse or prostitution.

To pimp.

To manage business for another in court.

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Procure Quotations

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
Virginia Woolf

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation.
Dolley Madison

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.
David Ricardo

We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.
Meriwether Lewis

If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for my family, although I must abandon my life to its success, and undergo many sad perplexities and perhaps never see again my own beloved America.
John James Audubon

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton

The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.
Mercy Otis Warren

Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
Elias Canetti

I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot.
Anthony Wayne

Procure Translations

procure in Dutch is uitreiken, verschaffen, verstrekken
procure in French is procurent, procurez, procurons
procure in German is vermitteln, beschaffe
procure in Italian is procurare
procure in Latin is redimo
procure in Portuguese is obtenha
procure in Spanish is procurar
procure in Swedish is anskaffa, utveckla, skaffa, ackvirera

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