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procurer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun procurer has 2 senses
- procurer(n = noun.person) fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, ponce - someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce); Array is a kind of offender, wrongdoer
- procurer(n = noun.person) securer - someone who obtains or acquires; "the procurer of opera tickets" is a kind of acquirer
has particulars: procuress, whoremaster, whoremonger
Derived form verb procure2
Derived form verb procure1
CIDE DICTIONARY
procurer, n. [Cf. F. procureur.].
- One who procures, or obtains; one who, or that which, brings on, or causes to be done, esp. by corrupt means. [1913 Webster]
- One who procures the gratification of lust for another; a pimp; a pander. South. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
procurer, n. (fem. procuress) a person who obtains women for prostitution.
Etymology
ME f. AF procurour, OF procureur f. L procurator: see PROCURATOR
THESAURUS
procurer
accepter, acquirer, addressee, audience, auditor, bawd, beholder, consignee, fancy man, getter, gigolo, hearer, holder, listener, looker, madam, maquereau, obtainer, pander, panderer, payee, pimp, procuress, receiver, recipient, spectator, taker, trustee, viewer, white slaver, whoremasterROGET THESAURUS
procurer
Libertine
N libertine, voluptuary, rake, debauchee, loose fish, rip, rakehell, fast man, intrigant, gallant, seducer, fornicator, lecher, satyr, goat, whoremonger, paillard, adulterer, gay deceiver, Lothario, Don Juan, Bluebeard, chartered libertine, adulteress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de joie, woman, woman of the town, streetwalker, Cyprian, miss, piece, frail sisterhood, demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, slut, minx, harridan, unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman, woman of easy virtue, wanton, fornicatress, Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette, demimonde, chippy, sapphist, spiritual wife, white slave, concubine, mistress, doxy, chere amie, bona roba, pimp, procurer, pander, pandar, bawd, conciliatrix, procuress, mackerel, wittol.
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