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get sb in phrasal verb

phrasal verb

Definition

to ask a trained person to come to your home to do some paid work
We'll have to get a plumber in to look at that water tank.

(Definition of get sb in from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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