Definitions for get hold of
get hold of

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1. take, get hold ofverb

   get into one's hands, take physically

   "Take a cookie!"; "Can you take this bag, please"

2. reach, get through, get hold of, contactverb

   be in or establish communication with

   "Our advertisements reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia"

3. seize, clutch, get hold ofverb

   affect

   "Fear seized the prisoners"; "The patient was seized with unbearable pains"; "He was seized with a dreadful disease"

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1. get hold of

   To "get hold of" means to successfully make contact with someone typically via a phone call, text message, email, or in-person. It can also mean to acquire or obtain something or gain control or possession of it.

Matched Categories

1. • Communicate
   • Sweep Over

How to pronounce get hold of?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

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   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say get hold of in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of get hold of in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of get hold of in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of get hold of in a Sentence

1. Prime Minister Andrej Babis:

   I have spoken about the Russian vaccine, and about the Chinese vaccine, with Chancellor Merkel, and the chancellor as well as the Bavarian prime minister are unambiguously calling for this vaccine to be approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), now of course the issue is whether the producer asks for the approval or not, and we of course want to consider, if we get hold of the vaccine, to go the similar way as Hungary did because time is of essence.

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. 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.

4. Anna Stoehr:

   She was not available when he had his assistant call to get hold of her because of a medical appointment, and then Mark Zuckerberg was out of the country so it never happened, but it was an exciting time for everyone with all the attention.

5. Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic:

   This initiative is very important, not only for security in western Europe but also because of security in our countries, where we should work on a complete de-escalation, to try to get hold of as many illegal weapons as possible.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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