Get hold of
Get hold of verb - Get into one's hands, take physically.
To buy and get hold of are semantically related. In some cases you can replace phrase "To buy" with "Get hold of", this terms are similar.
To buy
Get hold of and to buy are semantically related. You can use "Get hold of" instead a verb phrase "To buy".
Both terms in one sentence
- They are both harder to get hold of and more expensive to keep topped up, but in the late game the ammo for them or the caps to buy it are plentiful.
- In some, Carlton and Granada never get hold of the London and North West regions respectively, yet they manage to buy out the regions they purchased in our world and ITV is rendered to its consolidated state in 2003.
Source: In Spite of a Nail - But a bad guy in a movie is unlikely to be using tracer bullets; not only are they expensive to buy legitimately, but in a lot of states -including wildfire-prone California- they're illegal to sell to private citizens and therefore difficult to get hold of without a cross-border road trip.
Source: Impressive Pyrotechnics
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To buy and Get hold of. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/get_hold_of/to_buy
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