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Meaning of "procurer" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PROCURER

procurer  [prəˈkjʊərə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROCURER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Procurer is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PROCURER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

procurer

Procuring (prostitution)

Procuring or pandering is the facilitation or provision of a prostitute in the arrangement of a sex act with a customer. A procurer, colloquially called a pimp or a madam, is an agent for prostitutes who collects part of their earnings. The procurer may receive this money in return for advertising services, physical protection, or for providing, and possibly monopolizing, a location where the prostitute may engage clients. Like prostitution, the legality of certain actions of a madam or a pimp vary from one region to the next. Examples of procuring include: ▪ trafficking a prostitute into a country for the purpose of soliciting sex ▪ operating a prostitution business ▪ transporting a prostitute to the location of their arrangement ▪ deriving financial gain from the prostitution of another...

Definition of procurer in the English dictionary

The definition of procurer in the dictionary is a person who procures, esp one who procures women or girls as prostitutes.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROCURER


allurer
əˈljʊərə
assurer
əˈʃʊərə
Bonaventura
ˌbɒnəvɛnˈtjʊərə
bravura
brəˈvjʊərə
caesura
sɪˈzjʊərə
caricatura
ˌkærɪkəˈtjʊərə
cesura
sɪˈzjʊərə
curer
ˈkjʊərə
datura
dəˈtjʊərə
dura
ˈdjʊərə
endurer
ɪnˈdjʊərə
insurer
ɪnˈʃʊərə
jura
ˈdʒʊərə
Madura
məˈdʊərə
manurer
məˈnjʊərə
natura
nəˈtʊərə
ophiura
ˌɒfɪˈjʊərə
pandura
pænˈdjʊərə
securer
sɪˈkjʊərə
surah
ˈsʊərə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROCURER

proctoscope
proctoscopic
proctoscopy
procumbent
procurable
procuracy
procural
procurance
procuration
procurator
procurator fiscal
procuratorial
procuratorship
procuratory
procure
procurement
procurement department
procuress
procureur
procuring

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROCURER

adventurer
armourer
capturer
conjurer
devourer
farm labourer
figurer
labourer
lecturer
manufacturer
measurer
nurturer
reinsurer
remanufacturer
savourer
scourer
torturer
tourer
treasurer
venturer

Synonyms and antonyms of procurer in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PROCURER»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «procurer» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of procurer

Translation of «procurer» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROCURER

Find out the translation of procurer to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of procurer from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «procurer» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

拉皮条
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

proxeneta
570 millions of speakers

English

procurer
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्राप्त करनेवाला
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

القواد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сводник
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

procurer
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কোটনা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

proxénète
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pengusaha
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zuhälter
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

獲得者
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

조달 자
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Procurer
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ma cô
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அடைபவர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खरेदीदार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

muhabbet tellalı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

procuratore
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Zamawiający
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

звідник
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

proxenet
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μαστροπός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

koppelaar
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kopplaren
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

innkjøper
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of procurer

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROCURER»

The term «procurer» is quite widely used and occupies the 34.521 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROCURER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «procurer» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «procurer» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about procurer

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROCURER»

Discover the use of procurer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to procurer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Software Reliability Handbook
8.2 The Roles and Responsibilities of the Software Procurer Any buyer must realize that the quality of the items obtained is directly related to the qualities of the procurement process. If the procurer is not able to handle the responsibilities (of ...
Rook, 1990
2
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
The owner or manager of a bar where waitresses are encouraged to act as prostitutes is also a procurer, although he is rarely prosecuted. An organizer of package tours ("sex tours") where the services of a prostitute are included in the ...
Edward H. Lawson, Mary Lou Bertucci, 1996
3
Doing Business Electronically: a global perspective of ...
This model may be possible to implement in practice in structurally simple procurements in markets in which both the procurer and all potential suppliers have common telematic infrastructures and there are no external references to other ...
Celia T. Romm, Fay Sudweeks, 1998
4
Calendar of State Papers, Preserved in the State Paper ...
Note of matters that Philip Maret intends to prove against the bailiff of Jersey and Sir Phil. Carteret, for depriving him of his office of procurer. That the bailiff caused an Act to be written in the Rolls, 25 May 1616, wherein, upon the denunciator's ...
‎1872
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Calendar of State Papers: Preserved in the State Paper ...
Note of matters that Philip Maret intends to prove against the bailifi' of Jersey and Sir Phil. Carteret, for depriving him of his oflice of procurer. That the bailiff caused an Act to be written in the Rolls, 25 May 1616, wherein, upon the denunciator's ...
Mary Anne Everett Green, 1872
6
The Smart Internet: Current Research and Future Applications
When the service monitor identifies a service that needs to be procured, it sends the list of requirements along with the associated policies determining the service constraints to the Service Procurer. 3.4 Policy Manager Policy Manager ...
Mark Chignell, James Cordy, Joanna Ng, 2010
7
The Art Procurer
The Art Procurer follows the parallel lives of an SS colonel, Rainer Zeitz, whose assignment is to confiscate art from occupied countries and that of an American art professor, Martin Wynerson, whose assignment will be to recover such art ...
Jeff Ridenour, 2013
8
Cost Planning of PFI and PPP Building Projects
Termination of the project agreement This part includes aspects relating to provider events of default, procurer events of default, non-default termination, effect of termination, compensation on termination, and handback procedure. Under the ...
Abdelhalim Boussabaine, 2013
9
Full Delivery Manual
Instead, a measurement of the quality of the mitigation site being offered by the bidder is mathematically combined with the unit bid price to create a best value product for the procurer. 3.1 Request For Proposals (RFP) The private company or ...
David Robinson
10
Civil Code of the Republic Belarus: Adopted 7 December 1998; ...
and packing, the procurer shall provide the producer of the agricultural products with the necessary packaging and packing materials in the quantity and within the periods established by the contract of agricultural procurement. 3. Unless ...
William Elliott Butler, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROCURER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term procurer is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Barber of Seville: Opera Buffa in Mendocino Music Festival's Big Tent
... of the mischievousness of the impish rogue, barber and procurer, singing so cleverly that it proved a show-stopper, the audience cheering ... «Berkeley Daily Planet, Jul 15»
2
PW Picks: Books of the Week, July 27, 2015
Asmodeus “Sax” Saxon-Tang, an aging and immensely wealthy procurer of antiques, has a secret: his astonishing success has come from ... «Publishers Weekly, Jul 15»
3
'Where should we meet you?' Cops respond to Florida woman's …
A careless marijuana procurer who goes by the name @Rosa_Sparkz received a shock, when her quest to buy the drug online was met with a ... «RT, Jul 15»
4
School trees saved from the chop
... since she arrived, my contacts at TTSD, our parish procurer and everybody came together marvellously to say get on with it, no problems. «ITV News, Jul 15»
5
Rebidding for Bhedabahal UMPP by September
... the DBFOT model, the risk was not distributed equitably as all losses go to the power producer while gains are appropriated by the procurer. «Business Standard, Jul 15»
6
What the Iran deal means for blacklisted entities
Parviz Khaki, an alleged procurer for Iran's nuclear program who died last July, will not be de-listed until the IAEA gives Iran a clean bill of ... «Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Jul 15»
7
Tata Power's Mundra power plant generates 6296 MUs in first quarter
Gujarat is the largest procurer of power from CGPL at 47.5 per cent, followed by Maharashtra at 20 per cent, Punjab at 12.5 per cent, and ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»
8
Odisha opposes changes in SBDs for UMPPs
... that under the DBFOT model, the risk was not apportioned equitably as all losses go to the power producer while gains went to the procurer. «Business Standard, Jul 15»
9
Tata Power's Mundra generates 62945.77 MUs of power in 3 years
Gujarat is the largest procurer of power from CGPL at 47.5%, followed by Maharashtra at 20%, Punjab at 12.5%, and Haryana and Rajasthan at ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
10
La science-fiction est à l'honneur dans cette vente Flash de Sony
Ce week-end, Sony vous propose sur le PS Store, une vente axée sur les jeux de science-fiction dans laquelle vous pourrez vous procurer plusieurs jeux. «Game-Focus.com, Jul 15»

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