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procure

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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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The way to procure insults is to submit to them a man meets with no more respect than he exacts. William Hazlitt

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure. Robert Penn Warren

Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world. Arthur Schopenhauer

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

The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to procure the largest quantity of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing. Jean-Baptiste Colbert

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

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