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GET HOLD
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Get something or somebody for a specific purpose
Example:
The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter
Synonyms:
come up; find; get hold; line up
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "get hold" is one way to...):
acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s PP
