procural
- noun
- Archaic
- The procural of funding for the new project took longer than expected.
Examples
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She was praised for her effective procural of resources for the charity.
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Their team focused on the procural of essential materials for the upcoming event.
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In the late 1960s, backers of transplantation research unwittingly created these circumstances when they established "brain death" as a definition of death in an effort to ease the procural of human organs for transplantation.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
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4.6
Getting something to own, often by buying, like a company or a painting
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1.0
An act of gaining something, like buying or receiving it
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6.5
The process of buying goods or services for businesses and governments
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3.7
Getting something so it belongs to you
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7.6
The act of getting something you need or want
Getting something, often by finding or buying it
Antonyms
- Specialized
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8.0
Losing property, such as money or a house, as a penalty for doing something wrong
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Etymology
Procural comes from the Latin verb procurare, made of pro- 'for' and curare 'to care for'. You can see the same root in the word procure and in the English word 'care', so procural means the act of getting or arranging something, like taking care to obtain what is needed.