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procure

verb/prəˈkjʊə/

B2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

To bring about the commission of an offence by another.

He did not commit the assault himself but procured it by paying two men to carry it out.

Similar: bring about, instigate

Topic: Criminal law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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