Definition of Procurance

1. Noun. The act of getting possession of something. "He was responsible for the procurement of materials and supplies"

Exact synonyms: Procural, Procurement
Generic synonyms: Acquisition
Derivative terms: Procure, Procure, Procure

Lexicographical Neighbors of Procurance

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proctoscopes
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proctoscopy
proctosigmoidoscopies
proctosigmoidoscopy
proctotomies
proctotomy
proctour
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procurable
procuracy
procural
procurals
procurance (current term)
procuration
procurations
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procurator fiscal
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procuratorates
procuratorial
procurators
procuratorship
procuratorships
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procuratour
procured

Literary usage of Procurance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value and by John Proffatt, Abraham Clark Freeman (1886)
"... may be given where the same is in the possession of the opposite party, or has been lost or destroyed, although without the procurance of the prisoner. ..."

2. Manual of Corporate Management, with Forms: Full and Correct Information for by Thomas Carl Spelling (1904)
"Sometimes the procurance of the desired amount of preliminary subscriptions will be facilitated by using the ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Edward Hyde East, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"It does not appear, therefore, under the circumstances, that the boatman acted under the authority of the defendant in what he did by the procurance of the ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"... so the act of receiving the money upon it afterwards at Somerset House by the holder is also imputable to those by whose procurance it was thus done. ..."

5. Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public record office by Great Britain Public Record Office (1903)
"... as the king has learned that he was by the procurance of his rivals indicted for the death of Henry de Bury, knight, and for other trespasses alleged to ..."

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