get sth in
— phrasal verb with get uk/ɡet/us/ɡet/verb present participle getting, past tense got, past participle got or US usually gotten
(SEND)
to send something so that it arrives by a particular time:
I have to get my application in by Thursday.
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Delivering and despatching
- air drop
- air-dash
- airlift
- consign
- containerize
- despatch
- drop
- enclose
- fire
- fire sth off
- forward
- funnel
- reroute
- route
- send
- send sth in
- send sth off
- shipping
- trot
- trot sb out
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(SAY)
to succeed in saying something, although it is difficult to do this because other people are talking too:
He couldn't get a word in because she was talking so much.
I'll try to get my suggestion in at the start of the meeting.
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Saying & uttering
- (your) every word idiom
- add
- articulate
- come
- come out with sth
- every
- fall
- find your voice idiom
- floor
- in words of one syllable idiom
- in your own words idiom
- misspeak
- mouth
- phrase
- speak
- string
- text
- think
- use
- utterance
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(FIND TIME)
informal to manage to find time to do something or deal with someone:
I want to get a little bit more work in before I leave the office.
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Dealing with things or people
- attend to sb/sth
- beard the lion (in his/her den) idiom
- come up against sth
- come/get to grips with sth idiom
- confront
- cut
- firefight
- firefighting
- inherit
- jump-start
- negotiate
- overcome
- process
- reckon
- reckon with sb/sth
- see about sth
- see to sth/sb
- set about sth
- turn
- weather
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(BUY)
UK informal to buy a supply of something, usually food or drink, so that you will have enough of what you need:
We'll have to get some food in for the weekend if we're having visitors.
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Buying
- acquisitiveness
- approval
- bid
- bidding war
- bite
- brand loyalty
- bulk-buy
- import
- kick the tires idiom
- load up on sth
- money-off
- on the slate idiom
- order form
- order sth in
- over the counter idiom
- send out for sth
- shop around
- shopaholic
- shopping
- stock up
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