procuration, n. 1. procurement, acquisition, ob-tainment. See - procurement (defs. 1, 2).
2. pandering, pimping. See - procurement (def. 3).
3. appointment, assignment, designation; commissioning, deputation.
procure, v. 1. obtain, get, acquire, secure, gain, come by, fall into; take possession of, get one's hands on, get a hold of; capture, seize, grasp, net, bag; reap, gather, glean, harvest, garner; buy, purchase, pick up, Inf. find, Scot. Archaic, coff; attain, achieve, reach, win.
2. hire, rent, rent out, hack, charter; lease, sublease, let, sublet.
3. contrive, manipulate; rig, Inf. fix, Sl. square, cause, bring about; bribe, suborn; smuggle, run, U.S. bootleg; embezzle, Law. defalcate, misappropriate, steal, peculate.
4. pander, pimp, solicit, Sl. hustle; purvey, supply, furnish, provide.
procurement, n. 1. acquisition, acquirement, ob-tainment, obtaining, getting, gaining, securing, procuration; takeover, gain, annexation; seizure, appropriation, capture.
2. purchasing, buying, picking up; hire, hiring, renting, rental, lease, leasing.
3. pandering, pimping, soliciting, Sl. hustling; whoremongering, whoremastery, white-slaving; prostitution, harlotry, whoredom.
procurer, n. pimp, pander, panderer, whoremonger, Sl. flesh-peddler, Sl. hustler, U.S. Sl. sweetman, Fr. maquereau; procuress, Archaic, bawd, madam; white slaver, smuggler, runner; go-between, intermediary, middleman, agent, solicitor; purveyor, supplier, provider, furnisher.
prod, v. 1. poke, jab, punch, dig; prick, rowel, stick; nudge, elbow, shoulder, butt, boost; push, shove, drive, propel, move, get [s.o.] moving or going; press, hurry, hustle, rush, speed, quicken, accelerate.
2. goad, spur, prompt, thrust, give [s.o.] a little encouragement or boost or shove; incite, provoke, stimulate, motivate, rouse, arouse, actuate; encourage, urge, impel, egg on; agitate, whip up, work up, stir up, wind up, inflame, fire up; nag, harp at, hound, badger, needle; pester, hector, harass, ride; fret, vex, irritate, annoy, aggravate, torment, plague, persecute, Inf. drive up the wall; henpeck, pick on, criticize, carp at, complain, cavil, Yiddish, kvetch.
-n. 3. poke, jab, dig, finger in the ribs; nudge, elbow, boost, butt, punch, push, shove.
4. goad, poker, stick; spur, prickspur, prick, pricket, rowel, needle.
prodigal, adj. 1. profligate, wasteful, spendthrift, dissipative, squandering, improvident, thriftless; extravagant, immoderate, inordinate, overweening, exorbitant, excessive, unwarranted; munificent, generous, open-handed, free-handed.
2. abundant, abounding, plentiful, plenteous, bountiful, bounteous, copious, ample; profuse, profusive, lavish, overflowing, exuberant, superabundant; ex-haustless, boundless, bottomless, limitless, measureless; rich, luxuriant, rank, thriving; replete, rife, flush, teeming, swarming; myriad, multitudinous, numerous, numberless, innumerable.
-n. 3. profligate, wastrel, waster, squanderer; spendthrift, scattergood, Inf. high liver, Inf. big spender, Inf. free spender, spender.
prodigality, n. 1. extravagance, profligacy, waste, wastefulness, squandering, improvidence, thriftlessness; liberality, munificence, generosity, generousness, open-handedness, free-handedness.