procure

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English [edit]

WOTD – 22 March 2007    

Etymology [edit]

Old French procurer, from Late Latin procurare (“to take for, take care of, manage”), from pro- (“in behalf of”) with curare (“care for”).

Pronunciation [edit]

Verb [edit]

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

  1. (transitive) To acquire or obtain an item or service, sometimes rare, usually by extra effort.
    • 1945, George Orwell, Animal Farm, chapter 6
      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.
  2. (transitive) To obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else.
  3. (transitive, criminal law) To induce or persuade someone to do something.

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Translations [edit]

To acquire or obtain an item or service, sometimes rare, usually by extra effort
To obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else
To induce or persuade someone to do something
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References [edit]

  • “procure” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).

French [edit]

Verb [edit]

procure

  1. first-person singular present indicative of procurer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of procurer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of procurer
  4. first-person singular present subjunctive of procurer
  5. second-person singular imperative of procurer

Italian [edit]

Noun [edit]

procure f

  1. Plural form of procura

Portuguese [edit]

Verb [edit]

procure

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of procurar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of procurar
  3. first-person singular imperative of procurar
  4. third-person singular imperative of procurar

Spanish [edit]

Verb [edit]

procure (infinitive procurar)

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of procurar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of procurar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of procurar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of procurar.
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