Definitions for purposes

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purposes pur·pose

Spelling: [pur-puh s]

IPA: /ˈpɜr pəs/

Purposes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 228 anagrams from letters in purposes (eopprssu).

Definitions for purposes

noun

1. the reason for which something exists or is done, made, used, etc.
2. an intended or desired result; end; aim; goal.
3. determination; resoluteness.
4. the subject in hand; the point at issue.
5. practical result, effect, or advantage:

Idioms

1. on purpose, by design; intentionally:
2. to the purpose, relevant; to the point:

verb (used with object)

1. to set as an aim, intention, or goal for oneself.
2. to intend; design.
3. to resolve (to do something):

verb (used without object)

1. to have a purpose.

Origin of purposes

1250-1300; (noun) Middle English purpos Old French, derivative of purposer, variant of proposer to propose; (v.) Middle English purposen Anglo-French, Old French p

Examples for purposes

Its purpose is to answer one question: Is there enough evidence to warrant a trial?

By setting no goals, the player must find their own purpose.

We are gathered for one reason and one reason alone—to raise money to help fulfill that dream and that purpose.

Six lines would have contained all that is in it to the purpose of my story.

There was no thought that ye should part till you had some purpose in view.

Upon this as a platform of purpose and of action we can stand together.

But Seligman never imagined how Mitchell might put the concept to work, in part because it was so ill-suited to that purpose.

One of the downsides of landfills is that it is difficult to do anything with them once they have served their purpose.

The purpose of his going thus far with them made itself evident.

The story will signally fail of its purpose if it does not carry its own moral with it.