purpose

[ˈpɜːrpəs]

Definition:
1. The intention, aim or function of something.
2. Important and valuable to you.
3. The ability to plan sth and work successfully to achieve it.
4. What is needed in a particular situation.
5. An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.

Use 'purpose' in a sentence:

1. Their purpose is to build a fair society and a strong economy.
2. Her purpose was to scrutinize his features to see if he was an honest man.
3. The experiments serve no useful purpose.
4. Don't you mean purpose?
5. They choose purpose over happiness—having a clear sense of purpose even reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
6. The building is used for religious purposes.
7. I had no inkling of his real purpose until much later.
8. A few brief comments are sufficient for present purposes.
9. The purpose of the occasion was to raise money for medical supplies.
10. The purpose of the book is to provide a complete guide to the university.
11. The rule was introduced expressly for this purpose.
12. The main purpose of his holiday to Greece was to go diving.
13. These experiments serve no useful purpose.
14. They took a plaster cast of the teeth for identification purposes.
15. The main purpose of industry is to create wealth.
16. That is irrelevant; we must keep the main purpose of this meeting in sight.
17. I sing for no particular purpose.
18. The school's unexceptionable purpose is to involve parents more closely in the education of their children.
19. I am rather hazy as to what your purpose is.
20. The war, to all intents and purposes, was over.
21. The two items are, to all intents and purposes, identical.
22. A meeting was called for the purpose of appointing a new treasurer.
23. I think we're talking at cross purposes; that's not what I meant at all.
24. The purpose of industry is to create wealth.
25. This case brings into question the whole purpose of the law.
26. His purpose was to make a profit by improving the company's performance.
27. To all intents and purposes the case was closed.
28. We are working together for a common purpose.
29. Was it an accident or did David do it on purpose?
30. Our campaign's main purpose is to raise money.
31. Their purpose is to adjudicate disputes between employers and employees.
32. This machine serves a double purpose.
33. The experiments serve no useful purpose (= are not useful) .
34. I came here with the express purpose of speaking with the manager.
35. What's the purpose of the passage?
36. We have a secretary of state for Scotland who is for all practical purposes a Scottish prime minister.
37. Volunteer work gives her life (a sense of) purpose .
38. The money was collected for a specific purpose.
39. For the purposes of this study, the three groups have been combined.
40. One has to ask oneself what the purpose of the exercise is.
41. Its real purpose is the launching and retrieval of small aeroplanes in flight.
42. There is still a fundamental misunderstanding about the real purpose of this work.
43. I didn't hurt your pride on purpose.
44. I find the best tool for the purpose is a pair of shears.
45. This gun is designed for one purpose – it's basically to kill people.
46. He has enormous confidence and strength of purpose .
47. There's still another ten minutes of the game to go, but for practical purposes it's already over.
48. He claims he keeps a bottle of brandy only for medicinal purposes.
49. Too bad he used his intelligence for criminal purposes.
50. The teachers are enthusiastic and have a sense of purpose.
51. We delete the data once it has served its purpose.
52. The purpose of this exercise is not to apportion blame but to solve problems.
53. What's the main purpose of this article?
54. He did it on purpose, knowing it would annoy her.
55. Has everything a purpose and a mission?
56. For all practical purposes the treaty has already ceased to exist.
57. She called after them, but to no purpose.
58. By 1981 the docks had, to all intents and purposes, closed.
59. These gifts count as income for tax purposes.
60. The piece of furniture serves a dual purpose as a cupboard and as a table.
61. The purpose of oil refinery is to refine crude petroleum.
62. Why make a whole village prisoner if it was not to some nefarious purpose?
63. Various insurance schemes already exist for this purpose.
64. We spoke to little purpose — his mind was clearly made up already.
65. The purpose of the visit was to navigate into an ice-filled fiord.
66. They might well be prepared to do you harm in order to achieve their purpose.
67. The express purpose of the flights was to get Americans out of the danger zone.
68. It's time to set our differences by and work together for a common purpose.