GET HOLD

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Get something or somebody for a specific purpose

Example:

The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter

Synonyms:

come up; find; get hold; line up

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "get hold" is one way to...):

acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP