get hold ofinformal

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to receive or be given something
getI got a new bike for my birthday.
receiveYou will receive your tickets by email.
obtainAfter many years of trying, she finally obtained Brazilian citizenship.
gainYou will improve at the job as you gain experience.
earnEventually, you will earn the dog's trust.
achieveShe achieved top marks in the physics exam.
It's hard to obtain truly independent financial advice.很难获得真正客观的金融建议。
The education director is persevering in his attempt to obtain additional funding for the school.
The money was dishonestly obtained.这笔钱是以不诚实的方式获得的。
The documents are the first substantive information obtained by the investigators.这些文件是调查者得到的第一批实质性材料。
He was found guilty of obtaining money by deception.他骗取钱财的罪名被判成立。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Getting, receiving and accepting
acceptance
acquirable
acquire
acquisition
awardee
carve
draw
earn
get back
get out of something
get/lay/put your hands on someoneidiom
glom onto something/someone
go to someone
pocket
score
screw
screw something out of someone
seize
seize on/upon something
snap something up

obtainverb (EXIST)

[ Inot continuous ]
(especially of a situation) to exist: （尤指情况）存在
Conditions of extreme poverty now obtain in many parts of the country.目前该国的许多地方都极度贫困。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Existing and being
account for something
alive
be
be a thingidiom
been
estate
existent
existential
existentially
extant
force
found
living
self-existence
self-existent
speckle
spring up
stand
they're
thing

Examples of obtaining

obtaining

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Despite all of this ethnolinguistic variety, the legal process of obtaining a protective order operates, for the most part, quite systematically.
Although fertilisation rates are extremely high (80-100%), the probability of obtaining viable embryos is very low due to the high rate of polyspermic fertilisation.
We have to realize that the information requirements for obtaining these shadow prices are tremendous.
As the canal system no longer provided the means of obtaining water, a series of wells were dug parallel to the old canal.
In all groups, however, there were respondents for whom obtaining a qualification was not important, particularly among those with the lowest previous qualifications.
In the old days the jobber was responsible for obtaining labour.
This requirement is essential in the simply typed calculus for obtaining non-trivial inequalities.
Therefore, increased reliance has to be placed on pre-production quality control, especially for obtaining, testing and housing vaccine donors free of harmful infections.
These included difficulty in obtaining prescription pads, lack of electronic prescribing, pharmacists not being aware of supplementary prescribing, and the restrictions on antibiotic prescribing.
After obtaining several hundred simple events through ecological modelling or through temporal and spectral transformations, we proceed to merge these events using constrained stochastic algorithms.
The procedure for obtaining the maximum likelihood estimates is as follows.
Intracellular studies in the facial nucleus illustrating a simple new method for obtaining viable motorneurons in adult rat brain slices.
Similar problems were reported with obtaining information from social services, housing and voluntary agencies.
Subsequent to obtaining informed consent, 373 subjects were recruited as potential controls.
The funder then allocates a budget to the purchaser who has responsibility for obtaining specific outcomes or 'deliverables' at the best available price.
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