Definition of "get word" []

• Get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Instead of fruitlessly chasing Spitamenes once he had already launched his raid, Coenus used his local intelligence network to get word of the strike before it happened and rode out to intercept the raiders."
• "Nicomachus wanted nothing to do with a conspiracy against the king and so told his own brother Cebalinus about the matter and begged him to get word to Alexander."
• "Through another associate he did get word to the king, who ordered the arrest of Dimnus."