Get something from something

I usually get vegetables from the supermarket.

get something for $20/£100/50p etc

You can get a decent PC for about £500 now.

It's a lovely coat, and I managed to get it cheap in the sales.

b) spoken to pay for something for someone else

I'll get these drinks.

c) to buy a newspaper regularly

My parents always used to get the Daily Telegraph.

5. MONEY [transitive]

a) to receive money for doing work

Hospital doctors get a minimum of £50,000 a year.

get £2000/$4000 etc for doing something

He gets £4 an hour for stacking shelves at the local supermarket.

b) to receive money when you sell something

get £100/$200 etc for something

You should get a couple of hundred pounds for your old car.

Did you get a good price for it?

see usage note gain

6. HAVE A FEELING/IDEA[transitive]

to start to have a feeling or an idea

She began to get an uncomfortable feeling that she was being watched.

I got a terrible shock when I saw how ill he looked.

I got the impression that everyone was fed up with us.

Get pleasure from/out of something

She gets a lot of pleasure from her garden.

7. HAVE/EXPERIENCE

[transitive] to have, do, or experience something

You don't get enough exercise.

I never get time to read these days.

The west of the country gets quite a lot of rain.

We might get the chance to go to America this year.

8. ILLNESS

[transitive not in passive] to catch an illness

I got flu last winter and was in bed for three weeks.

She was worried she might get food poisoning.

9. ACHIEVE

[transitive] to achieve something

I got 98% in my last maths test. the person who gets the highest score

10. RECEIVE A PUNISHMENT

[transitive] to receive something as a punishment

He got ten years in prison for his part in the robbery.

11. ARRIVE

[intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to arrive somewhere

What time will we get there?

We didn't get home until midnight.

Get to

We got to Paris that evening.

12. REACH A POINT

[intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to reach a particular point or stage of something

I've got as far as chapter 5.

I couldn't wait to get to the end of the book.

Where have you got up to in the story?

It was disappointing to lose, having got this far in the competition.

13. get (somebody) somewhere/anywhere/nowhere

if you get somewhere, or if an action gets you somewhere, you make progress

I think we're getting somewhere at last.

We didn't seem to be getting anywhere.

I've tried arguing, but it got me nowhere.

14. MOVE

[intransitive always +adverb/preposition] to move or go somewhere

Get out of my house!

We managed to get past the guards.

They shouted at us to get back. Peter got to his feet (=stood up).

15. MAKE SOMETHING MOVE◀

[transitive always + adverb/preposition] to make something or someone move to a different place or position, especially with some difficulty

I couldn't get the disk out of the computer.

Could you help me get the wardrobe up the stairs?

We must get food and emergency aid into the area as quickly as possible.

16. TRAVEL

[transitive] to travel somewhere on a train, bus etc

You can get a bus to the station.

I got the 9:15 from London to Edinburgh.

17. BECOME

[linking verb]to change to a new feeling, situation, or state

ￚsynonym become

Don't get upset.

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