procurer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who obtains or supplies someone or something for another, often through effort or special arrangements

   The museum hired a procurer to locate rare manuscripts for the collection.

2. 2
   noun

   a person who recruits clients or sexual partners for sex workers; a pander or pimp

   The law punished the procurer for profiting from the exploitation of others.

From Middle English procurour, through Anglo-Norman and Old French from Latin procurator ("manager, agent"), based on procurare ("to manage, take care of, obtain"). The specialized sexual sense developed from the broader role of arranging or obtaining something for another.

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