Both Uses
procure
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- The day before they sailed, while Petrov had been ashore procuring drugs for his cupboard, Borodin had contaminated the badges with the X-ray machine.†
Chpt 7. *procuring = getting by special effort
- He'd done a tricky repair job on some ancillary reactor equipment two weeks earlier than estimated with a little creative effort and some back-channel procurement of spare parts.†
Chpt 8.procurement = the act of getting by special effort
Definitions:
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(1)
(procure) get by special effort
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)