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procurer

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pro·cur·er  (pr-kyrr, pr-)
n.
1. One that procures: a procurer of free tickets to concerts.
2. A pander.
procurer [prəˈkjʊərə] feminine, procuress [prəˈkjʊərɪs]
n
a person who procures, esp one who procures women or girls as prostitutes
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.procurerprocurer - someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, ponce
England - a division of the United Kingdom
offender, wrongdoer - a person who transgresses moral or civil law
procuress - a woman pimp
whoremaster, whoremonger - a pimp who procures whores
2.procurer - someone who obtains or acquires; "the procurer of opera tickets"
securer
acquirer - a person who acquires something (usually permanently)
Translations
procurer [prəˈkjʊərəʳ] N → proxeneta m, alcahuete m
procurer
n (= pimp) → Zuhälter m, → Kuppler m
procurer [prəˈkjʊərəʳ] n (Law) → prosseneta m, lenone m
procurer [prəˈkjʊərəʳ] n (Law) → prosseneta m, lenone m


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And what credit can the poor clerk of a procurer have, pray?
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
This jail was a Noah's ark of the city's crime--there were murderers, "hold-up men" and burglars, embezzlers, counterfeiters and forgers, bigamists, "shoplifters," "confidence men," petty thieves and pickpockets, gamblers and procurers, brawlers, beggars, tramps and drunkards; they were black and white, old and young, Americans and natives of every nation under the sun.
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This is the reason why bards love wine, mead, narcotics, coffee, tea, opium, the fumes of sandal -wood and tobacco, or whatever other procurers of animal exhilaration.
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