PROCURER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does procurer mean? 

• PROCURER (noun)
  The noun PROCURER has 2 senses:

1. someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)

2. someone who obtains or acquires

  Familiarity information: PROCURER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROCURER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fancy man; pandar; pander; panderer; pimp; ponce; procurer

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

procurer; securer

Context example:

the procurer of opera tickets

Hypernyms ("procurer" is a kind of...):

acquirer (a person who acquires something (usually permanently))

Derivation:

procure (get by special effort)