Usually means: Acquiring possession or ownership of.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. obtaining: Merriam-Webster
  2. obtaining: Collins English Dictionary
  3. obtaining: Vocabulary.com
  4. Obtaining, obtaining: Wordnik
  5. obtaining: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. obtaining: Wiktionary
  7. Obtaining, obtaining: Dictionary.com
  8. obtaining: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Obtaining: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Obtaining: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. obtaining: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. obtaining: FreeDictionary.org
  13. obtaining: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. obtaining: Legal dictionary

(Note: See obtain as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (obtain)

verb:  (transitive) To get hold of; to gain possession of, to procure; to acquire, in any way.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To secure (that) a specific objective or state of affairs be reached.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To prevail, be victorious; to succeed.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To hold; to keep, possess or occupy.
verb:  (intransitive, philosophy) To exist or be the case; to hold true, be in force.
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