obtain
verb (used with object)
to come into possession of; get, acquire, or procure, as through an effort or by a request.
obtainer
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a word derived from
obtain.
Example Sentences
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Free Advertisement Whatever one may think of Henry Ford's other activities, at least the palm must be accorded him as a manufacturer and as an obtainer of free advertisement.
From Time Magazine Archive
It may suit your purpose, as to which I am so faintly enlightened, to appear to the prisoner what you are—the obtainer of this grace.
From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
He thought but of what he had lost, not of what he had gained; and saw in Robin only the destroyer of his vessel, not the obtainer of his long sought-for pardon.
From The Buccaneer A Tale by Mrs. S. C. Hall
