noun
Meaning 1
A person who procures or obtains things
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
procurer
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /pɹəˈkjʊəɹə/
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Received-Pronunciation: /pɹəˈkjɔːɹə/
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General-American: /pɹəˈkjʊɹə/
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General-American: /pɹəˈkjəɹə/
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CMU ARPABET: P R OW0 K Y UH1 R ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A person who procures or obtains things:
A person who procures customers for prostitutes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: especially
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pander, panderer, pimp
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A person who incites or riles; an instigator.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pimp, panderer, pander, pandar, fancy man, ponce
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wrongdoer, offender
Narrower terms: procuress, whoremaster, whoremonger
noun
Meaning 5
someone who obtains or acquires
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the procurer of opera tickets
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: securer
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: acquirer
History
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English procurour, from Anglo-Norman procurour and continental Old French procureor, from Latin prōcūrātor; by surface analysis, procure + er. Doublet of proctor and procurator.
Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Polish: pośrednik — a person who procures or obtains things
- Polish: pośredniczka — a person who procures or obtains things
- Swedish: skaffare — a person who procures or obtains things
- Bulgarian: сводник (svodnik) — one who procures customers for prostitutes
- Greek: προαγωγός (proagogós) — one who procures customers for prostitutes
- Hungarian: kerítő — one who procures customers for prostitutes
- Hungarian: kerítőnő — one who procures customers for prostitutes
- Latin: leno — one who procures customers for prostitutes
- Latin: lena — one who procures customers for prostitutes
- Polish: alfons — one who procures customers for prostitutes
- Polish: burdelmama — one who procures customers for prostitutes
- Russian: сво́дник (svódnik) — one who procures customers for prostitutes
- Serbo-Croatian: svȍdnīk /сво̏днӣк — one who procures customers for prostitutes
- Serbo-Croatian: podvòdāč /подво̀да̄ч — one who procures customers for prostitutes
- Serbo-Croatian: kùpler /ку̀плер — one who procures customers for prostitutes
- Serbo-Croatian: màkrō /ма̀кро̄ — one who procures customers for prostitutes
- Swedish: hallick — one who procures customers for prostitutes
- Swedish: sutenör — one who procures customers for prostitutes