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US
/pɹoʊkˈjʊɹɝ/
]
[ UK /pɹəkjˈʊɹɐ/ ]
[ UK /pɹəkjˈʊɹɐ/ ]
NOUN
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someone who obtains or acquires
the procurer of opera tickets - someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
How To Use procurer In A Sentence
- The bloodhounds, known as the seducer, the libertine, the procurer, are upon her track; she is trembling on the frightful brink of the abyss. Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics
- On our premises, without exception, they are condemned to remain exploited with the hands of the procurers.
- Supplier" in these regulations refers to the provider or the contractor who may conclude or have concluded a procuring contract with the procurer.
- One girl indentured in the early 1980s reported that her mother was tricked by Han procurers who had promised a waitressing job.
- Il est toutefois encore disponible puisque comme Timulus, meme si indiqué SOLD OUT chez le fabricant, j'ai reussi a me le procurer. Pinku-tk Diary Entry
- Howard was effectively acting as a procurer, as a pimp.
- The bill did include more rigorous punishment for procurers and for the clients of under-age prostitutes, and a reduction in penalties for adult prostitutes.
- Deranged, self serving, sexually driven and yet likeable Wayne Ogden is our unscrupulous procurer and criminal ready to triumph with his blackmail schemes and the like. Carole Mallory: Review: The Adjustment by Scott Phillips
- There are at least three reports each year of procurers kidnapping maids off the street and forcing them into prostitution.
- In particular, the central character, Sari Arany (which we can accept as a translatuion convention: in Hungarian she would have been Arany Sari) is a fascinating figure, developing from introspective teenager to being the village midwife, registrar and procurer of poison. Three Who audiobooks