acquirer vs procurer

acquirer and procurer both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
acquirer	Yes	No	No	No
procurer	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, procurer is a hyponym of acquirer; that is, procurer is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than acquirer:

Other hyponyms of acquirer include receiver, recipient, appropriator, securer.

acquirer (noun)	procurer (noun)
a corporation gaining financial control over another corporation or financial institution through a payment in cash or an exchange of stock	someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce)
the financial institution that dispenses cash in automated teller machines and collects a fee from the bank that issued the credit card	someone who obtains or acquires
a credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing fee
a person who acquires something (usually permanently)