Verb

(procur)

To acquire or obtain.

* Milton

if we procure not to ourselves more woe

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Later there would also be need for seeds and artificial manures, besides various tools and, finally, the machinery for the windmill. How these were to be procured , no one was able to imagine.

To obtain a person as a prostitute for somebody else.

(criminal law) To induce or persuade someone to do something.

(obsolete) To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.

* Robynson (More's Utopia)

By all means possible they procure to have gold and silver among them in reproach.

* Shakespeare

Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall.

(obsolete) To solicit; to entreat.

* Spenser

The famous Briton prince and faery knight, / Of the fair Alma greatly were procured / To make there longer sojourn and abode.

(obsolete) To cause to come; to bring; to attract.

* Shakespeare

What unaccustomed cause procures her hither?

Verb

(promot)

To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.

He promoted his clerk to office manager.

Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.

To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.

They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.

They promoted the new film with giant billboards.

To encourage, urge or incite

{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=5 , so that finding myself on the point of going, and loath to leave the tender partner of my joys behind me, I employed all the forwarding motions and arts my experience suggested to me, to promote his keeping me company to our journey's end}}

To elevate to the above league.

At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.

(label) To increase the activity of a catalyst by changing its surface structure

(label) To exchange a pawn for a queen or other piece when it reaches the 8th rank