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Definition of source verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

source

verb
 
/sɔːs/
 
/sɔːrs/
(business)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they source
 
/sɔːs/
 
/sɔːrs/
he / she / it sources
 
/ˈsɔːsɪz/
 
/ˈsɔːrsɪz/
past simple sourced
 
/sɔːst/
 
/sɔːrst/
past participle sourced
 
/sɔːst/
 
/sɔːrst/
-ing form sourcing
 
/ˈsɔːsɪŋ/
 
/ˈsɔːrsɪŋ/
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  1. source something (from…) to get something from a particular place
    • We source all the meat sold in our stores from British farms.
    • All our vegetables are locally sourced.
    see also outsource
    Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French sours(e), past participle of sourdre ‘to rise’, from Latin surgere.
See source in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee source in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English
sufficiently
adverb
 
 
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