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get hold

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. line up, get hold, come up, findverb

    get something or somebody for a specific purpose

    "I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"; "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter"

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  1. get hold

    "Get hold" generally refers to the act of obtaining, acquiring, or taking possession of something. It can also mean to establish or secure control over a situation, or successfully make contact or communicate with someone. The context determines the exact meaning.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of get hold in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of get hold in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of get hold in a Sentence

  1. Ben Embarek:

    What is important, what would be of great help, is to get hold of the virus before it adapted to humans, before the version we have now. Because then we would better understand how it adapted to humans, how it evolved, in terms of investigations, China has most probably, most likely, all the expertise needed to do these investigations. They have lot of very qualified researchers to that.

  2. Dick Pound:

    They might well do that( ask for a re-test) but I think what they would really prefer to do would be to get hold of Radchenkov, people make it sound like he is in America somewhere. He's a fairly slippery character.

  3. Cheng Weiling:

    There's lots of demand, but some people just can't get hold of the inventory.

  4. Julius Young:

    It's further than I would have even imagined it. I mean, if I can't find my phone or if my phone is not beside me and I don't know where it's at, I thought I lost it, I feel like I've almost lost my life. Your whole life is on your phone and I wouldn't know anybody's numbers around me, I wouldn't be able to get ahold of Julius Young, I wouldn't be able to get hold of my wife or anybody if I didn't have my phone.

  5. Birama Sissoko:

    There is a stock of ivory that circulates. If we can get hold of the ivory, we can work backwards until we get hold of the poachers.


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