procurar
Meaning
- (transitive) to search; to seek; to look for
- to reach out (attempt to initiate communication)
- (auxiliary) to try; to attempt
- (intransitive) to work as a procurator (attorney or agent)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
pro‧cu‧rar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pɾo.kuˈɾa(ʁ)/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese procurar, from Late Latin prōcūrāre (“to manage, to administer”), from Latin prāre + cūrō (“to take care; to cure; to manage”). Cognate of English procure.
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Que tipo de coisas precisamos procurar antes de redigir ✍️ ?
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What kind of things do we need to look for before writing?
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