get hold of

Questions about get hold of

What does get hold of mean?

get hold of means "get into one's hands, take physically". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for get hold of?

Close synonyms include take, reach, get through, contact, seize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is get hold of a common word?

get hold of is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.