Meaning & use
obtention
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The formal act or process of obtaining something, especially a right, document, or approval.
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The contract specified strict conditions for the obtention of a construction permit.
Obtention of the visa took nearly three months of paperwork.
A note on using this word
Obtention is chiefly used in formal, legal, or bureaucratic writing, and is far less common than its everyday synonym "obtaining."
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