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procuring

noun C2
  1. The act of procuring, or amount procured. (countable, uncountable)

Plural procurings

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They had, therefore, many acquaintance in common; and, though Wickham had been little there since the death of Darcy’s father, five years before, it was yet in his power to give her fresher intelligence of her former friends than she had been in the way of procuring.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 165 · B2
When have you been prevented by want of money from going wherever you chose or procuring anything you had a fancy for?”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 213 · B2

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