procureとは

語源

From Old French procurer, from Late Latin prōcūrāre, present active infinitive of Latin prōcūrō (“I manage, administer”), from prō (“on behalf of”) + cūrō (“I care for”).

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /pɹəˈkjʊə/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /pɹoʊˈkjʊɹ/, /pɹəˈkjʊɹ/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)

動詞

procure (三人称単数 現在形 procures, 現在分詞 procuring, 過去形および過去分詞形 procured)

1. (transitive) To acquire or obtain.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     if we procure not to ourselves more woe

   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell, 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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Ralph Robinson (translator), Thomas More, Utopia

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

   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall.

5. (obsolete) To solicit; to entreat.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Spenser

     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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?

同意語

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

関連する語

• procurement
• procurer
• procuress
• proxy

参照

• “procure” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2018.

アナグラム

• crouper