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- isolate
obtain in pure form
- get back, win back
recover something or somebody that appeared to be lost
- express, extract, press out
obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action
- capture, catch
capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- come by, come into
obtain, especially accidentally
- buy, purchase
obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction
- charter, engage, hire, lease, rent, take
engage for service under a term of contract
- have, receive
get something; come into possession of
- turn
get by buying and selling
- buy
acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange
- find
obtain through effort or management
- glom
seize upon or latch onto something
- come upon, enter upon, luck into
take possession of
- come up, find, get hold, line up
get something or somebody for a specific purpose
- accept, have, take
receive willingly something given or offered
- obtain
come into possession of
- find, recover, regain, retrieve
get or find back; recover the use of
- catch
get or regain something necessary, usually quickly or briefly
- recoup, recover, recuperate
regain or make up for
- reclaim, repossess
claim back
- find, regain
come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost
- acquire, gain, win
win something through one's efforts
- bring in, clear, earn, gain, make, pull in, realise, realize, take in
earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- earn, garner
acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions
- benefit, gain, profit
derive a benefit from
- partake, partake in, share
have, give, or receive a share of
- preempt
acquire for oneself before others can do so
- preempt
gain possession of by prior right or opportunity, especially so as to obtain the right to buy (land)
- call for, collect, gather up, pick up
gather or collect
- inherit
obtain from someone after their death
- borrow
get temporarily
- pick up
get in addition, as an increase
- poll
get the votes of
- preisolate
isolate beforehand
- carry
secure the passage or adoption (of bills and motions)
- hunt, hunt down, run, track down
pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)
- dig up, excavate, turn up
find by digging in the ground
- ream
squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer
- frog
hunt frogs for food
- bag
capture or kill, as in hunting
- batfowl
catch birds by temporarily blinding them
- rat
catch rats, especially with dogs
- ensnare, entrap, snare, trammel, trap
catch in or as if in a trap
- take in, take up
accept
- extort, wring from
get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner
- kite
get credit or money by using a bad check
- hit, stumble
encounter by chance
- buy back, repurchase
buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away
- take
buy, select
- subscribe, subscribe to, take
receive or obtain regularly
- hustle
get by trying hard
- accept
receive (a report) officially, as from a committee
- fence
receive stolen goods
- accept, admit, take, take on
admit into a group or community
- welcome
accept gladly
- honor, honour
accept as pay
- source
get (a product) from another country or business
- procure, secure
get by special effort
- extract
get despite difficulties or obstacles
- take out
obtain by legal or official process
- get in, get into
secure a place in a college, university, etc.
- eke out, squeeze out
obtain with difficulty
- eke out, squeeze out
make by laborious and precarious means
- access
obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer
- graduate
receive an academic degree upon completion of one's studies
- bum, cadge, grub, mooch, sponge
ask for and get free; be a parasite
- buy out, buy up, take over
take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
- distrain
legally take something in place of a debt payment
- foreclose
subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage
- profit, turn a profit
make a profit; gain money or materially
- cash in on
take advantage of or capitalize on
- profiteer
make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods
- capitalise, capitalize, take advantage
draw advantages from
- rake off
take money from an illegal transaction
- feel
find by testing or cautious exploration
- locate, turn up
discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining
- attain, chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, discover, fall upon, happen upon, light upon, strike
find unexpectedly
- pick up
buy casually or spontaneously
- cozen
cheat or trick
- bring home, take home
earn as a salary or wage
- rake in, shovel in
earn large sums of money
- letter
win an athletic letter
- pyramid
enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts
- clear, net, sack, sack up
make as a net profit
- gross
earn before taxes, expenses, etc.
- bear, pay, yield
bring in
- derive, gain
obtain
- rout out, rout up
get or find by searching
- cut in
allow someone to have a share or profit
- inherit
receive by genetic transmission
- shop
do one's shopping
- buy food, take out
purchase prepared food to be eaten at home
- adopt, borrow, take over, take up
take up and practice as one's own
- snag
get by acting quickly and smartly
- impulse-buy
buy on impulse without proper reflection
- grab
obtain illegally or unscrupulously
- catch up with, make up
make up work that was missed due to absence at a later point