PROCURATION

Definition: PROCURATION

PROCURATION

Noun

1. A sum of money paid formerly to the bishop or archdeacon, now to the ecclesiastical commissioners, by an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation; -- called also proxy.

2. The instrument by which a person is empowered to transact the affairs of another; a proxy.

3. The management of another's affairs.

4. The act of procuring; procurement.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "PROCURATION" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Procuration \Proc`u*ra"tion\, noun. [Latin expression procuratio: compare to the French expression procuration. See Procure.]. (Websters 1913)

Acquisition

Noun: acquisition; gaining; Verb: obtainment; procuration, procurement; purchase, descent, inheritance; gift.

Commission

Noun: commission, delegation; consignment, assignment; procuration; deputation, legation, mission, embassy; agency, agentship; power of attorney; clerkship; surrogacy.

Crosswords: PROCURATION

French (dealership, letter of attorney, procuration, proxy).

Books

• De la procuration à la conviction : cent ans d'évangélisation du Cameroun (reference)

• Meurtres par procuration : les assassins à l'écran (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "PROCURATION": by procuration ♦ per procuration ♦ procuration fee ♦ procuration money ♦ procuration of the right of disposal. Additional references.

Albanian

sigurim (ascertainment, cover, coverage, floater, indemnity, insurance, procurement, reassurance, reversion, safeguard, safety, security), kodoshllëk (procurement), gjetje (discovery, find, procurement, recovery), dhënie prokure, autorizim (authorization, commission, permission, permit, proxy, warranty). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وكالة (agency, commission, dealership, proxy), ‏حصول, ‏تفويض (authorization, commission, delegacy, delegation, deputation, mandate, power of attorney, proxy, warrant, warranty), ‏توكيل (authorization), ‏إكتساب (acquisition, conquest). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сводничество (bawdry), снабдяване (delivery, equipment, finding, fit out, provision, purveyance, supply), пълномощно (commission, letter of attorney, proxy, trust deed, warrant), доставяне (procurement, provision, purveyance). (various references)

Czech

opatření (extremity, measure, move, precaution, provision, remedy, step). (various references)

Danish

fremskaffelsesgebyr (procuration fee). (various references)

Dutch

procuratie hebben (to have signatory power, to hold the procuration), volmacht hebben (to have signatory power, to hold the procuration), afsluitprovisie (brokerage, commission, commission charges, procuration fee), aanbrengprovisie (procuration fee), aanbrengcommissieloon (procuration fee). (various references)

Finnish

prokuura (proxy). (various references)

French

procuration (proxy), obtention (procurement), acquisition (procurement). (various references)

German

Zuhälterei (pimping, procuring), Vermittlung (agency, arrangement, arranging, connection, conveying, exchange, finding, giving, imparting, insemination, instrumentality, intercession, mediation, negotiation, operator, placement, switchboard). (various references)

Greek 

αντιπροσωπεία (agency, delegation, deputation, vicarage, vicariate). (various references)

Hungarian

meghatalmazás (accreditation, authorisation, authority, authorization, commission, credentials, mandate, proxy), megszerzés (acquirement, acquisition, attainment, getting, obtestation, procurement), cégjegyzés (registration), beszerzés (acquisition, procurement, supply), ügyvitel (direction, management). (various references)

Italian

procacciamento. (various references)

Manx

reirey (administer, administration, casting, dictation, extend, manage, management, order, reach, serve). (various references)

Pig Latin

ocurationpray

Portuguese

procuradoria (attorneyship), procuração (commission, power of attorney, proxy, warrant), plenos poderes (freedom hand), alcovitice, alcoviteirice. (various references)

Romanian

procurã (mandate, power of attorney, warrant, warrant of attorney), împuternicire (commission, delegacy, deputation, letter of attorney, mandate, power of attorney, proxy, vicarious power, warrant, warrant of attorney). (various references)

Russian 

приобретение (accuisition, acquest, acquirement, acquisition, acquisitions, contraction, procurance, procurement, purchase), полномочие (authority, commission, competence, competency, empowerment, full powers, power, procuracy, proxies, proxy), доверенность (commission, empowerment, letter of attorney, letter of authority, poa, power of attorney, proxy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

punomoć (authorization, mandate), upravljanje (control, directing, driving, management, managing, regimen). (various references)

Spanish

proxenetismo (procuring), procuración (procuratory, procurement, proxy), obtención (attainment, obtaining, obtainment, procurance, procurement), consecución (achievement, acquisition, attainment, procurance, procurement). (various references)

Swedish

koppleri (crime of living on a prostitute's earnings), fullmakt (commission, letters of appointment, power of attorney, proxy, warrant, warrent), anskaffande (provision). (various references)

Turkish

vekâletname (letter of attorney, power of attorney, proxy, trust deed, warrant, warrant of attorney), vekâlet (mandate, power of attorney, proxy, succession), tedarik (procurement, supply), sağlama (accommodation, enlistment, obtainment, procuring, proof, providing, provision, supply), aracılık (agency, agency business, intercession, intermediate trade, intervention, mediation, mediatorship). (various references)

Ukrainian

ведення справ за дорученням, звідництво (procurement), придбання (acquirement, acquisition, getting, obtaining, obtainment, obtention, procurement, purchase), доручення (authorization, delegation, errand, mandate, message, mission, procurance, procuratory, proxy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tội l� m ma cô, tội dắt gái, sự thu thập quyền thay mặt, sự kiếm được (obtainment), nghề trùm gái điếm, nghề dắt gái, hoa h�"ng môi giới vay tiền nghề ma cô, giấy uỷ quyền (procuratory). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "PROCURATION": procurations. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: corruption.

-2 letters: incorrupt, proration.

-3 letters: carrotin, copatron, couranto, picaroon, pronator, protonic.

-4 letters: airport, apricot, aprotic, atropin, auction, cantrip, caption, carotin, carport, carrion, cartoon, caution, contour, coranto, cornuto, corpora, corrupt, courant, crouton, curator, currant, curtain, opuntia, oration, outcrop, outroar, paction, parotic, patroon, porcino, portico, portion, proctor, pronota, puranic, puritan, rainout, rancour, ruction, touraco, tricorn, utopian.

+1 letter: procurations.

+3 letters: anticorruption, unincorporated.

+4 letters: anticorruptions.

+5 letters: micromanipulator, supercorporation, ultrasonographic.