• (RP) IPA: /pɹəˈkjʊə/, /pɹəˈkjɔː/
• (GA) IPA: /pɹəˈkjʊɹ/, /pɹəˈkjɝ/

procure (procures, present participle procuring; past and past participle procured)

1. (transitive) To acquire or obtain.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 2”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     if we procure not to ourselves more woe

   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473 ↗:

     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.
4. (obsolete) To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.
   • (translator), Thomas More, Utopia (book)

     By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach.

     c. 1594, William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene i]:

     Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall.

5. (obsolete) To solicit; to entreat.

   • The famous Briton prince and faery knight, […] / Of the fair Alma greatly were procured / To make there longer sojourn and abode.

6. (obsolete) To cause to come; to bring; to attract.

   • c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene v]:

     What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?

• (acquire) obtain
• (obtain a prostitute) buy, purchase

• procurement
• procurer
• procuress
• proxy

• French: acquérir, obtenir
• German: beschaffen, erwerben, besorgen, aufbringen, verschaffen, beibringen
• Portuguese: obter, conseguir
• Russian: достава́ть

• French: proxénétisme
• German: zuführen, kuppeln, vermitteln
• Russian: сводничать

• German: verleiten, überreden
• Russian: подгова́ривать