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procural

procural

9.5
Getting something you need, often by buying or arranging it
  • noun
  • Archaic
translation icon : obtención
  • The procural of funding for the new project took longer than expected.

Examples

  • She was praised for her effective procural of resources for the charity.

  • Their team focused on the procural of essential materials for the upcoming event.

  • 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

acquisition
vsprocural
147 4.6

Getting something to own, often by buying, like a company or a painting

is broader, covering any act of obtaining, not only assets
procurement
vsprocural
  • Specialized
34 6.5

The process of buying goods or services for businesses and governments

is the general act of securing possession across contexts
getting
vsprocural
7 1.0

An act of gaining something, like buying or receiving it

is the neutral or formal term for the same act
obtainment
vsprocural
7.6

The act of getting something you need or want

is the same action but expressed as a different word form
procurance
vsprocural
  • Archaic
9.9

Getting something, often by finding or buying it

is the general name for that act rather than a specific choice of word
acquiring
vsprocural
3.7

Getting something so it belongs to you

focuses on the act itself rather than the ongoing process

Antonyms

439 1.4

The event when you stop having someone or something important

forfeiture
  • Specialized
10 8.0

Losing property, such as money or a house, as a penalty for doing something wrong

How Formal

procurement
  • Specialized
34 6.5
procural
  • Archaic
9.5
acquisition
147 4.6
getting
7 1.0

Surface Forms

procural singular
procurals plural

Morphology

procural = procure (transparent) = procure + al

Formed by the verb 'procure' plus the nominal/adjectival suffix '-al'; if a learner knows 'procure' the meaning 'the act of obtaining' is predictable.

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.