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obtención

obtaining

noun ob-ten-SYOHN Rare
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Also means

acquisition

Usage Note

Obtención is a formal noun denoting the act of obtaining or acquiring something, common in scientific, legal, and bureaucratic texts: la obtención de un visado, la obtención de resultados. In everyday speech, conseguir or lograr are preferred; obtención appears mainly in written or technical registers.

Examples

"La obtención del permiso tardó varios meses."

Natural Translation

Obtaining the permit took several months.

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