0 present participle of procure
1 to get something, especially after an effort:
They worked originally through community-based activist efforts and were successful in procuring full community participation in hospital administration and achieving anti-lead poisoning legislation.
Procuring ration cards may be difficult unless the department concerned has staff sufficiently vigilant, efficient, dedicated and sympathetic to issue cards on request.
Much is made of the importance of procuring patients' 'informed' consent for participation in research.
They evaluate both the perspective of the possible donor and the moral agency of healthcare providers in procuring the second kidney.
Flogging is prescribed as punishment for a few crimes, such as recurrent procuring.
Consequently, the government had great difficulty in procuring enough wheat despite strict restrictions on its inter-state movement.
These organic handlers may be handling products from only their own farm, or procuring from other farms and handlers as well.
She apologized for the inferior quality of paper used in several issues, ' 'but the difficulty she has found in procuring it has been great.
