agenciar
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]agenciar (first-person singular present agencio, first-person singular preterite agencií, past participle agenciat)
- (transitive) to do what is necessary to obtain (something); to procure
- 1987, Ferran Torrent, Un negre amb un saxo:
- Amb una mica de sort li arrancaria un préstec a l'empresa i m'agenciaria un motor nou de trinca.
- With a bit of luck I would get him to make a loan to the business and procure for myself a brand-new motor.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of agenciar (first conjugation)
Further reading
[edit]- “agenciar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Spain) /axenˈθjaɾ/ [a.xẽn̟ˈθjaɾ]
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /axenˈsjaɾ/ [a.xẽnˈsjaɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: a‧gen‧ciar
Verb
[edit]agenciar (first-person singular present agencio, first-person singular preterite agencié, past participle agenciado)
- to procure
- 1898, Benito Pérez Galdós, Mendizábal:
- Adquiridos los barcos, agenció en la City más dinero, más, y en seguida, a buscar hombres, soldados.
- Having acquired the boats, he procured more money in the City, and then, he went looking for men, for soldiers.
- 2022, Daniel Acevedo Gómez, Óscar Alfonso R, Erik Aparicio Zamora, 60 años bajo el signo de la prohibición:
- En este caso, las mujeres agencian el rol que tradicionalmente se les ha asignado en favor del cuidado de las organizaciones.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (reflexive, + "de") to get hold of; to procure oneself (with)
- 1907, Manuel Prado, La guerra al malón:
- No se les daba racionamiento, pero siquiera podían salir al campo, bolear avestruces, cazar gamas y agenciarse de tabaco y de yerba, cambiando por estos artículos a los pulperos, los cueros y las plumas.
- They weren't given rations, but at least they could go to the countryside, bring down ostriches, hunt deer had get hold of tobacco and grass, which they exchanged with the storekeepers for leather and feathers.
- to attain
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of agenciar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of agenciar
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “agenciar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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