Other forms: procured, procuring, procures
To procure is to obtain something with some effort. Procure supplies, procurement rules, hard to procure.
In organisations, procurement is the whole discipline of buying, and public procurement rules exist to stop contracts going to friends. The word has an older and darker legal sense about arranging prostitution, which is why it is used carefully.
1verbprocureTo obtain something with some effort.
“The hospital struggled to procure enough masks during the crisis.”
procure is an obtaining.
Latin procurare means to manage or attend to — pro, on behalf of, plus curare, to care for.
Proto-Indo-European
*kʷeys-
Latin
prōcūrō — to manage, administer
Old French
procurer
Middle English
procuren
English, today
procure
Built from
From Middle English procuren, from Old French procurer, from Latin prōcūrō (“to manage, administer”), from prō (“on behalf of”) + cūrō (“to care for”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA