Meaning & use
obtainment
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The act of getting or acquiring something, especially through effort or a formal process.
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The report outlined the steps required for the obtainment of regulatory approval.
Obtainment of the rare manuscript took the museum nearly a decade of negotiation.
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Obtainment is a stiffer, more bureaucratic alternative to the everyday word "obtaining," and appears mostly in legal and administrative documents.
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