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obtain English

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obtain Verb

— If you obtain something, you get it. The newspaper was able to obtain the information from police. After obtaining permission from the town, they built the new trail. — If something obtains, it is true or it exists. His argument is therefore compatible only in cases where class difference does not obtain.

obtain

— verb come into possession of How did you obtain the visa? — verb (= receive, get, find) receive a specified treatment (abstract) These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation His movie received a good review I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions — verb (= hold) be valid, applicable, or true This theory still holds

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get acquire gain receive attain procure achieve take secure earn find win have purchase come by buy reach possess reap prevail derive catch accept succeed select incur hold enlist discover yield woo take over supply seize see score remove recruit realize rally profit own meet livelihood harvest go extract enrol draw determine

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Language and thought Think

Learn
Physical actions Have, be with

Receive
Physical actions Have, be with

Get
Social behavior Law Trial

Investigate a crime

Conjugation obtain conjugation

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Simple sentences

Some things are difficult to obtain.
How did you obtain this painting?
Can you obtain this rare book for me?
Some people can obtain relaxation from reading.
He worked hard to obtain his objective.
Don't obtain wealth at the expense of your conscience.
As shown above, it is possible to obtain ample profit and customers with truly simple know-how that anyone can do!
They don't realize that they're being used as pawns to obtain a wider political objective.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
I did everything I could to obtain this prize.
You have to punch trees to obtain wood.
Tom will never obtain my consent to marry my daughter.
The centre of gravity should be lower to obtain greater stability.
How did you obtain these old postage stamps?
Where can I obtain a map of Europe?
These items are rather hard to obtain.
Scotland has set itself on a course to obtain independence from London.

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In order to do this, I must obtain a noble title by marrying an aristocrat.
The Russians obtain intelligence about the approaching armoured train.
Everybody must work together in order to obtain the palm leaf fan and put out the flames.
Here, the fortunate ones, through money or influence or luck might obtain exit visas and scurry to Lisbon.
We're putting three men ashore to obtain vital data.
We'll obtain data that our fliers need on that city.
I decided to obtain a post in Germany, where my English would command a premium, and, having learnt German, to return to England.
And remember, madame, if you insist upon his arrest and fail to obtain a conviction, you will find yourself in a very, very difficult predicament.
Cases have been recorded in which the victims, driven by some abnormal urge, actually believed the blood of other people was necessary to keep them alive, became psychopathic killers in order to obtain it.
I find it difficult to believe that a human being can change himself into a bat, or that by feeding upon the blood of the living he can obtain eternal life.
If this course seems to you. unnecessarily exacting. may I again remind you that unless we obtain. certiorari in the immediate future.
You're walking the streets while they do the work you love but cannot obtain.
If you can solve their problem, go to them and obtain the commission.
It will need more blood and will try to obtain what it needs.
I took a lot of trouble last night, after I left, to obtain some information about you.
I have some jewels, worth 40 or 50 thousand, and I guess I can obtain that much more.
Still, they obtain furs, valuable buffalo hides, otter, fox and beaver.
I plan to be humble and thus obtain an audition.
Any effort to obtain a new one would only involve the government.
Here, the fortunate ones, through money or influence or luck might obtain exit visas and scurry to Lisbon. And from Lisbon to the New World.
That's the clincher to all the misinformation we have allowed him to obtain.
I'm sorry to disturb you but I was unfortunately delayed from arriving in time to bid on certain articles, which I was rather anxious to obtain.
I'm most anxious to obtain them.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
They begged me to obtain your consent.
As I fearfully awaited punishment, I was given the reward my humble services could not obtain.
Can you obtain a visiting permit for his wife, too?
The thing we pay most dearly for, snatch from each other, fight for, the thing we only obtain by force of genius, or by luck, by meanness, by privation, by wild efforts, resolution, energy, audacity or work?
That particular story would be worth five grand to any news service. But tell me, Mr Bradley, if you are sober, how you are going to obtain this fantastic interview.
Some humble flowers I managed to obtain from a nearby park.
We need to obtain a reprieve from the court in Hamburg.
In order to obtain my father's release, I've betrayed my friends.
I, too, as it happens, since you're so admirably qualified to give me. what up to now I've not been able to obtain: A physical description of Spartacus.
Kill captain Poof to obtain the governor's pardon.
Let me try and obtain the guns and gun powder carried in those boats.
But I know what I want and how to obtain it.
Could you tell where I can find out what is required of Germans who want to obtain a work permit?
I had to try and obtain information for the Nazis.

News and current affairs

But, rather than earning him the respect of an outraged Egyptian public, revelations in the opposition press that his plane had to obtain a safe passage and authority to land from the Israelis garnered only howls of derision.
But on the middle board of economic relations, the world is already multipolar, and the US cannot obtain the outcomes it wants without the cooperation of Europe, Japan, China, and others.
But even as short-term interest rates began to rise, the day of reckoning was postponed, as new borrowers could obtain fixed-rate mortgages at interest rates that were not increasing.
Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, Singapore, and China, there are calls for extending university programs so that students can obtain a broad, liberal education, in the hope that graduates will be more inclined to experiment and innovate.
They could not obtain bank financing.
Since the terrorist attacks of September 2001, entry visas are fewer and more difficult to obtain, stanching the flow of young talent into US universities.
Of course, everyone is aware that the incumbent government could not, even if it wished, cooperate with the world since not a single member of it can obtain a visa to travel.
Rather than intervening to obtain a short-term increase in their share of slow-growing global demand, it makes sense for countries to make their economies more balanced and efficient over the medium term.
Fourth, and finally, the failure of Lehman Brothers and near failure of the insurance giant AIG, incited a financial panic, in which even healthy firms are unable to obtain short-term bank loans or sell short-term commercial paper.
The challenge for policymakers is to restore enough confidence that companies can once again obtain short-term credit to meet their payrolls and finance their inventories.
They told us about determined and costly efforts to obtain doomsday devices.
It must be clear by now that Pyongyang is determined to keep its nuclear weapons program in order to obtain a credible assurance from the US that its bizarre and repressive regime will be allowed to survive.
Bush and Blair talked repeatedly about stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, massive underground and mobile units to produce or launch such weapons, and active programs to obtain nuclear weapons.
An energy ministry that decides who can obtain gas at one-fifth of its cost and who cannot is obviously subject to irresistible pressures to distribute its favors to whomever offers the largest bribes or kickbacks.
These pooled funds would enable farmers in poor countries to obtain the fertilizer, improved seed varieties, and small-scale irrigation equipment that they urgently need.
In such a difficult domestic situation, North Korea's leaders may adopt more hostile policies to obtain economic aid from both South Korea and the United States.
Can Greece, with the EFSF's help, obtain debt relief while avoiding default?
If farmers can be helped to obtain simple technologies, income can rise, and they can accumulate bank balances and collateral.
With a bit of temporary help, perhaps lasting around five years, farmers can build up enough wealth to obtain inputs on a market basis, either through direct purchases from savings or through bank loans.
Poor farmers lost access to fertilizers and improved seed varieties. They could not obtain bank financing.
He has reduced the membership of the Politburo from nine to seven, making it easier to obtain agreement in a system designed to institutionalize collective leadership.
Some activists have criticized US Senator Jim Webb's journey to Yangon to obtain the release of John Yettaw, the American whose actions triggered the charges against Aung San Suu Kyi.
We can already obtain portions of our own genetic information and use it to make informed medical decisions, join existing patient groups, or create new ones.
Yang had conspired with the government officials directing the lottery, who were arrested for malfeasance, to fraudulently obtain the top prizes.
It is too soon to tell if Iran's desire to obtain nuclear weapons has been delayed.
While repealing one law to satisfy his voters - and get elected - Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger promised new legislation that would restore undocumented workers' ability to obtain a driver's license.
Most American journalists fully understand that Assange did not illegally obtain classified material; the criminally liable party is whoever released the material to the site.

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