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point noun (PURPOSE)

/pɔɪnt/ n
[U] purpose or usefulness
I see little point in discussing this further.
I'd like to write to him, but what's the point? He never writes back.
[+ -ing verb] informal There's no point arguing about it - we're going and that's that.

(Definition of point noun (PURPOSE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

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