What is the meaning of the word 'obtain'

obtain - come into possession of


Some sentence examples which use the word 'obtain'

  • These rules do not obtain any longer.
  • My wife, Marie is a nurse, able to obtain blood.
  • This expedition put an end to the hope, so long entertained, that it was possible to obtain a direct and practicable route for stock between Kimberley and Coolgardie gold-fields; and it also proved that, with the possible exception of small isolated patches, the desert traversed contained no auriferous country.
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