Word Meanings - PROCUREMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment; attainment. 2. Efficient contrivance; management; agency. They think it done By her procurement. Dryden.

Related words: (words related to PROCUREMENT)

• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• PROCURATORSHIP
  The office or term of a procurator. Bp. Pearson.
• PROCURATORY
  Tending to, or authorizing, procuration.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• THINK
  confounded with OE. thenken to think, fr. AS. þencean ; akin to D. denken, dunken, OS. thenkian, thunkian, G. denken, dünken, Icel. þekkja to perceive, to know, þykkja to seem, Goth. þagkjan, þaggkjan, to think, þygkjan to think, to seem,
• PROCURACY
  1. The office or act of a proctor or procurator; management for another. 2. Authority to act for another; a proxy.
• PROCURATOR
  One who manages another's affairs, either generally or in a special matter; an agent; a proctor. Chaucer. Shak.
• ATTAINMENT
  1. The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; hence, the act of obtaining by efforts. The attainment of every desired object. Sir W. Jones. 2. That which is attained to, or obtained by exertion; acquirement; acquisition; , mental
• PROCURE
  for + curare to take care, fr. cura care. See Cure, and cf. Proctor, 1. To bring into possession; to cause to accrue to, or to come into possession of; to acquire or provide for one's self or for another; to gain; to get; to obtain by any means,
• PROCUREMENT
  1. The act of procuring or obtaining; obtainment; attainment. 2. Efficient contrivance; management; agency. They think it done By her procurement. Dryden.
• AGENCY
  1. The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward. 2. The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between
• THINKER
  One who thinks; especially and chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as, a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker.
• THINKABLE
  Capable of being thought or conceived; cogitable. Sir W. Hamilton.
• OBTAIN
  1. To hold; to keep; to possess. His mother, then, is mortal, but his Sire He who obtains the monarchy of heaven. Milton. 2. To get hold of by effort; to gain possession of; to procure; to acquire, in any way. Some pray for riches; riches they
• PROCURESS
  A female procurer, or pander.
• PROCURATORIAL
  Of or pertaining to a procurator, or proctor; made by a proctor. Ayliffe.
• PROCURER
  1. One who procures, or obtains; one who, or that which, brings on, or causes to be done, esp. by corrupt means. 2. One who procures the gratification of lust for another; a pimp; a pander. South.
• PROCURATION
  A sum of money paid formerly to the bishop or archdeacon, now to the ecclesiastical commissioners, by an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation; -- called also proxy. Procuration money , money paid for procuring
• EFFICIENT
  Causing effects; producing results; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power. The efficient cause is the working
• OBTAINMENT
  The act or process of obtaining; attainment. Milton.
• INEFFICIENT
  1. Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures. 2. Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen;
• MISTHINK
  To think wrongly. "Adam misthought of her." Milton.
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• REOBTAIN
  To obtain again.
• METHINKS
  It seems to me; I think. See Me. In all ages poets have been had in special reputation, and, methinks, not without great cause. Spenser. (more info) me þynceedh, me þuhte, OE. me thinketh, me thoughte; akin to G.
• INTERAGENCY
  Intermediate agency.
• INEFFICIENTLY
  In an inefficient manner.
• UNTHINKER
  A person who does not think, or does not think wisely.
• REATTAINMENT
  The act of reattaining.
• FORTHINK
  To repent; to regret; to be sorry for; to cause regret. "Let it forthink you." Tyndale. That me forthinketh, quod this January. Chaucer.
• SUBAGENCY
  A subordinate agency.
• MISMANAGEMENT
  Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.