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noun (AIM) /end/Definition
› [C] an aim, intention, or purpose: Do you have a particular end in mind?Goals and purposes to this end › with this aim: He wanted science students to take an interest in the arts, and to this end he ran literature classes at his home on Sunday afternoons.Goals and purposes
(Definition of end noun (AIM) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- aim noun (INTENTION)
- ambition noun
- avail noun
- dedicated adjective
- 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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