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(v)
(transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
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(transitive) To be given, sent, or paid something.
(transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
(transitive) To grasp or grip.
(transitive) To bring upon oneself or expose oneself to, especially something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to become liable or subject to.
(transitive) To get.
(n)
The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition.
The act or process of acquiring.
(intransitive) To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress.
(transitive) To acquire or obtain.
(transitive) To gain (an object or desired result).
The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; the act of obtaining by exertion or effort.
(transitive) To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
(ambitransitive) To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.
(adj)
(of a goal or status) Having been reached, attained or accomplished.
The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment.
(transitive, ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.
An achievement; the process of achieving something.
(transitive) To encourage growth; to support progress or growth of something; to promote.
(transitive, often reflexive) To turn to the advantage of. [(chiefly) with of]
(uncountable) The right or ability of approaching or entering; admittance; admission; accessibility.
(transitive) To finish successfully.
(transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case
To keep up; to preserve; to uphold (a state, condition etc.).
(transitive) To persistently endeavor to obtain an object, or bring about an event.
(intransitive, copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.
(ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
The act by which something is received; reception.
Readily obtainable.
A proposal that has been made.
(copulative, rather formal, followed by an adjective or a noun) begin to be; turn into (often with permanent states).
(ambitransitive) To try to find; to look for; to search for.
Gain; profit.
(transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
(transitive, ditransitive) To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
(intransitive) To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way.
To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.
(transitive) To cause, bring about, lead to.
To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
To give as a result or outcome; to produce or render.
That constitutes a win.
To move toward the speaker.
(transitive) To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.
(transitive) To make whole or entire.
To give or write a receipt (for something).
(transitive) To bring forth, to yield, make, manufacture, or otherwise generate.
To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
(transitive) To bring into being; give rise to.
(ditransitive) To give (permission or wish).
(transitive, catenative) To permit, to give permission to.
(transitive) Often followed by from: to hold back (someone or something); to check, to prevent, to restrain, to stop.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
(transitive) To replenish to, resume (a good state of mind or body).
Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary.
(transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
(transitive) To be or to provide a benefit to.
(transitive) To regain or get back something.
(ambitransitive) To order, give orders; to compel or direct with authority.
(intransitive) To confer with others in order to come to terms or reach an agreement.
(transitive) To create.
Generally accepted as correct or true.
(ambitransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching.
(transitive) To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence.
(transitive) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
To physically place (something or someone somewhere).
(intransitive) To come or go back (to a place or person).
To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.
(intransitive) To occur or take place.
A result of research or an investigation.
(transitive) To get back; to recover possession of.
(transitive or with a subjunctive clause) To ask for (something).
To demand ownership of.
(transitive) To find out definitely; to discover or establish.
(transitive) To find out where something is located.
An act of delivering.
(intransitive) To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition).
(transitive) To possess, own.
(physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
(intransitive) To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand).
(intransitive) To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.
(transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
(business, trading, of the market, stocks etc., intransitive) To recover strength after a decline in prices.
To request or petition.
British English form of inquire. [(intransitive, US, Canada, Australia) To ask (about something).]
To give an assurance that something will be done right.
(transitive) To have (something) as, or as if as, an owner; to have, to own.
(transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
(transitive) To gather together; amass.
(intransitive) To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer; to advise.
(transitive) To set up; to organize; to put into an orderly sequence or arrangement.
(transitive) To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
Supplemental or added to something.
(transitive) To become aware of, understand, or appreciate (a fact or situation, especially something which has been true for some time).
(transitive, ditransitive) To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods.
(countable) A command.