Synonyms:
procure, secure
Meaning: get by special effort; "He procured extra cigarettes even though they were rationed"
Usage examples
Sometimes the Toradjas attempt to procure rain as follows.
But I shall see what light this new honour will procure me!--So I'll get ready.
The loans it might be able to procure would be as limited in their extent as burdensome in their conditions.
Talbot, I learned from my betrothed, had just arrived in town. I was to see him at once, and procure a carriage.
If you want to procure the root ask a wood-seller; it is a common thing for hunters to need, and it is not hard to find.
These, he said, he could secure if he had the ready money to make advances and to procure the necessary warm clothing and blankets.
"Nor death hath reached him yet, nor guilt doth bring him," My Master made reply, "to be tormented; But to procure him full experience,
If all their efforts to procure rain prove abortive, they will remember that such and such a twin was buried in a dry place on the side of a hill.
"It ill becomes you, monsieur, to give your king a lesson," said Anne of Austria; "better procure for him forty millions to replace those you make him lose."
The Beaver's best course was, no doubt, to procure A second-hand dagger-proof coat-- So the Baker advised it--and next, to insure Its life in some Office of note: