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obtain
verb as in get, acquire
Strongest matches
access, achieve, attain, collect, earn, gain, gather, glean, have, pick up, procure, purchase, reach, realize, reap, receive, recover, retrieve, secure, seize, take, win
Strong matches
accomplish, annex, capture, compass, cop, corral, effect, fetch, grab, hoard, inherit, invade, nab, occupy, pocket, salvage, save, score, snag, wangle
Weak matches
beg borrow or steal, chalk up, come by, drum up, get at, get hold of, get one's hands on, gobble up, lay up, make use of, scrape together, scrape up
Example Sentences
Information on cardiovascular medicines was obtained from the Swedish Prescribed Drug Register.
In this way, they obtained spatially and temporally finely resolved locations where vultures fed.
The research team also obtained sound recordings of original Aztec death whistles as well as from handmade replicas.
Smith-Griffin used some of the fraudulently obtained funds to put a down payment on a house in North Carolina and pay for her wedding, prosecutors said.
The team also hopes to automate the process of assessing nutritional content based on food photos, and is developing large language models capable of automatically asking follow-up questions to obtain more accurate information.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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