aim
noun [C] (INTENTION) /eɪm/Definition
B1 a result that your plans or actions are intended to achieve: My main aim in life is to be a good husband and father. Our short-term aim is to deal with our current financial difficulties, but our long-term aim is to improve the company's profitability. The leaflet has been produced with the aim of increasing public awareness of the disease.Goals and purposes
(Definition of aim noun (INTENTION) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- ambition noun
- avail noun
- dedicated adjective
- function noun (PURPOSE)
- goal noun (AIM)
- have big ideas idiom
- idea noun (PURPOSE)
- mission noun (JOB)
- object noun (PURPOSE)
- order noun (PURPOSE)
- orientation noun (AIMS)
- prize noun
- purpose noun
- raison d'être noun
- sb's heart's desire idiom
- should modal verb (POSSIBILITY)
- the end justifies the means idiom
- the order of the day idiom
- way noun (WANT)
- will noun (MENTAL POWER)
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