Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • That may be procured; obtainable: as, an article readily procurable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Capable of being procured; obtainable.

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  • adjective Of things which may be procured.

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  • adjective capable of being obtained

Etymologies

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procure +‎ -able

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Examples

  • The anticipation that a book will always be easily procurable is often unfounded, but, so long as the anticipation exists, it restrains collecting.

    Book Collecting 1995

  • We could then buy a change of underclothing, and daily consumed prodigious quantities of Dutch chocolate, also procurable from the canteen (which I afterwards bought in Holland for one-tenth of the price).

    'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany Gerald Featherstone Knight

  • Indeed, very few books were procurable from the Dutch at Deshima.

    A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

  • The alcalde's permission to make use of the adjacent ground was obtained for a moderate consideration, and plenty of material was procurable from the opposite bank of the river.

    Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands 1857

  • The industrious application of the smallest copper coin procurable, the humble farthing or the halfpenny, speedily converted the most insignificant abrasion of the skin into a festering sore.

    The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

  • The OSS had discovered that “enemy sources” were selling some 1,500 pages of Russian codes on the black market, so “General Donovan took the only course open to a loyal ally in accepting this material as soon as he found it was procurable,” General Deane was to inform the NKGB chief.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • It happened that she made by far the finest cocktail procurable in that large city where drink-mixing on the part of the foreign population was indeed an art.

    Chapter 29 2010

  • She postulates on absurd assumptions that the futuristic forecast on the politico field deems procurable.

    Palin heading to Iowa 2009

  • The OSS had discovered that “enemy sources” were selling some 1,500 pages of Russian codes on the black market, so “General Donovan took the only course open to a loyal ally in accepting this material as soon as he found it was procurable,” General Deane was to inform the NKGB chief.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • The Kandahar Newsletter entry from June 8, 1891, also included the following: A Tahsildar has been appointed to collect all the 'Kaldar' rupees procurable in Kandahar.

    Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

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