1 (especially BrE) to go to where sb/sth is and bring them/it back:
[VN] to fetch help / a doctor * The inhabitants have to walk a mile to fetch water. * She's gone to fetch the kids from school. * [VNN] Could you fetch me my bag?
2 [VN] to be sold for a particular price:
The painting is expected to fetch ｣10000 at auction.
IDIOMS
fetch and carry (for sb) to do a lot of little jobs for sb as if you were their servant:
Most of her day was spent fetching and carrying for her family.
PHRASALVERBS
fetch up (informal, especially BrE) to arrive somewhere without planning to:
And then, a few years after leaving college, he somehow fetched up in Rome.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for fetch is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is fetch a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, fetch is tagged as verb.
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