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PROCURER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
Synonyms:
fancy man; pandar; pander; panderer; pimp; ponce; procurer
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("procurer" is a kind of...):
offender; wrongdoer (a person who transgresses moral or civil law)
Domain region:
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "procurer"):
procuress (a woman pimp)
whoremaster; whoremonger (a pimp who procures whores)
Derivation:
procure (arrange for sexual partners for others)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who obtains or acquires
Example:
the procurer of opera tickets
Synonyms:
procurer; securer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("procurer" is a kind of...):
acquirer (a person who acquires something (usually permanently))
Derivation:
procure (get by special effort)